• Dylan Valley

A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video "Larney Jou Poes" (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Janette Yarwood

The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."

• Dennis Laumann

A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.

• Jean Allman

A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.

• Ibrahim Abdullah

Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Boima Tucker

• Katarina Hedrén

The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.

• Greer Valley

Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Sorana Munsya

Differences can be harmonious and allow people to come together despite their background and roots.

• Paula Akugizibwe

• Serubiri Moses

The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.

• Lineo Segoete
• Zachary Rosen

The story of Ba re e ne re, now probably Lesotho's premier literary festival as told by those involved from its start in tragic events.

• Nosarieme Garrick

• Katarina Hedrén

As a filmmaker, Matsetela wants to be an alternative voice, in a topography that’s filled with stories by others, like Django Unchained, defining black people.

• Lindokuhle Nkosi

“The metaphysical properties of hip-hop, the metaphors, helped me imagine a better world."