• 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.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

The combined sounds of indigenous groups from northern Colombia with the drums imported with African slaves in Cartagena, once the biggest slave port of the American continent.

• Boima Tucker

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Ini Dele-Adedeji

• Lineo Segoete

The Basotho people must have a stake in the production and distribution of their culture.

• Leila Dee Dougan

An interview - captured on film - with Cape Town-born artist Kemang Wa Lehulere about his work.