• Boima Tucker

• Janette Yarwood

As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.

• Gemma Solés

Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.

• Christine Hogg

A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.

• Laura J. Mitchell

How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?

• Katarina Hedrén

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Liz Timbs

Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa's democratic president, Nelson Mandela.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.

• Boima Tucker

This month's selection of tunes is from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, the United States, the U.K., Angola, and classics from East Africa.

• Duane Jethro

Public art, the vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy for commerce and the spoiling of public space in Cape Town.

• Liz Timbs

An online archive of photos taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the UK's National Archives.

• Beza Tesfaye

There's something amazing about not being able to understand lyrics but still being able to comprehend what a song means.

• Indira Govender

A South African doctor working for MSF writes about her experience working in the Ebola zone in Sierra Leone.

• Ainehi Edoro

The writer Taiye Selasi doesn’t seem to realize there is a difference between identity as a subjective, biographical problem and identity as a legal and political reality.

• Katarina Hedrén

Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann sees film as a powerful tool to inspire compassion by briefly letting us live another’s life and expand our understanding.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Christopher J. Lee

Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.

• Benjamin Fogel

Done 'debating' whether “Larney Jou Poes” is free speech? Let's talk about the conditions of farmworkers.