• Boima Tucker

The musical groups perhaps setting the pace for a new idea of liberation for people of African descent in the Americas.

• Duane Jethro

The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.

• Derica Shields

How can bodily experiences be shared, asks British Nigerian director Shola Amoo in his short film, "Touch."

• Indira Govender

The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch's black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

• T.J. Tallie

Colbert’s satire is based in a smug ironic whiteness. It doesn't mean I have to like it or can't feel it's problematic or alienating as a person of color.

• Leila Dee Dougan

Ethiopian-American artist, Wayna, explores issues including police brutality, disenfranchisement, race and identity in her music.

• Jeremy Weate

The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.

• Liduduma'lingani Mqombothi

Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

"An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Pharrell Williams's pop hit, "Happy," is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?

• Jonathan Duncan

Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world.

• Remi Onabanjo

Ten Harlem-based artists and ten Columbia University students work together for the month-long exhibition, "Bridging Boundaries: Redefining Diaspora."

• Raoul J. Granqvist

It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Cape Town hip hop duo, Ill Skillz's music documents their musical joy-ride through the good, the bad, and the nostalgic.

• Johny Pitts

Johny Pitts could not find a sense of self in his corner of black Britain, so he started to wonder if there was a collective black consciousness on the European continent.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

Documenting the change from hope to depression and then finding new means to cope with the fading fragrance of revolution in Egypt.

• Ang Lloyd

The photographer Zanele Muholi equally mourns and celebrates South African queer lives.

• Jeremy Weate

Nigeria's Minister of Finance imposes a 62.5% tariff on imported printed books, where previously there has been none.

• Leila Dee Dougan

An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.

• Chandra Frank

The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father's records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.