• Dylan Valley

Our short film of the creator and star of "Awkward Black Girl," Issa Rae, whose father is Senegalese and mother is African American and who spent part of her childhood in Dakar.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

The Gqom sound runs the gamut of township flavor until it teases Afro-house and eThekwini (Durban) groove without fully admitting to its Kwaito influence.

• Harry Stopes

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This Weekend Music Break, No. 83, features eighteen pop songs that can't be played on Nigerian airwaves. You can still listen on your phone or watch the videos on Youtube.

• Liz Timbs

The preservation of nostalgia by evicted black residents of one of Cape Town's now very white suburbs.

• ACCRA dot Alt

• Marthe Van der Wolf

For the first time, an Ethiopian film, "Lamb," was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. We interviewed director Yared Zeleke.

• Ananya Jahanara Kabir

‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

The writer and musician Sabelo Mkhabela picks a selection of some beat tapes in his possession and writes about them for us.

• Boima Tucker

• Ainehi Edoro

The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'

• Dylan Valley

• Daniela Valero

There is a lot of ignorance about Afro-Latinos, despite the deep history dating back to the introduction of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me"

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance's monthly installment of "Top World Carnival Tunes" for July 2015.

• Ashley Okwuosa

Offering a glimpse at daily life in the West African mega city.

• Zachary Rosen

• Efe Igor

A new book highlights African innovation, challenging dominant perceptions of the continent.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

An interview with musician, Kevin Flórez, about how a music imported by West African sailors to 1970s Colombia became the soundtrack of his city, Cartagena.

• Rofhiwa Maneta

The producer and beatmaker, Tweezy, is behind many of 2014 and 2015's most successful South African hip hop somgs.