• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Johan Palme

Five films pointing to new directions for African cinema -- by some of the most exciting young filmmakers from the continent.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

Highlighting one of the dark sides of Egyptian nationalism, and exposing the dangers of blanket xenophobia.

• Jonathan Duncan

The self-titled debut album of Ibibio Sound Machine, features songs mostly in the southern Nigerian language of lead vocalist, Eno Williams.

• Ed Pavlić

In 1986, one year before he passed away, James Baldwin announced a radical idea: “White History Week.” In this post, Ed Pavlic writes about how Baldwin got to that moment.

• Kieran Dodds

When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.

• Litheko Modisane

Slavery governed the Cape Colony, the origin of colonialism in South Africa, for nearly 200 years and left a lasting legacy.

• Chandra Frank

The Dutch are quick to celebrate "12 Years a Slave," but what if Steve McQueen had decided to make the film about Dutch slavery and colonial history?

• Duane Jethro

Nicholas Eppel's photographs of a working class woman's home life in central Cape Town doubles as a chronicle of the city's gentrification.

• Elliot Ross

An insight into the openly racist and homophobic atmosphere that passed for public life in Margaret Thatcher's England.

• Tom Devriendt

Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's 1953 film "Statues also die" should be appreciated more for how it challenged European, especially French, approaches to African art.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Dylan Valley

Whether there will be an "Awkward Black Girl" movie or not, Issa Rae has impacted black television without ever being on television.

• Netta Kornberg

Toronto lends itself to sci-fi imaginings, so it’s not surprising that for some it could be a capital of Afrofuturism.

• Boima Tucker

• Megan Eardley

In Deji Olukotun’s novel, a Nigerian NASA scientist -- on behalf of all colonized people -- wants to return moon rocks that Neil Armstrong brought back to earth.

• Alice de Vries

It is important that the Netherlands' history of slavery gets anchored in Dutch history curriculums in the same way that the Second World War is.

• Nganji Laeh

Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.

• Tom Devriendt

• Katarina Hedrén

In a non-sensationalist manner, without super-heroes and special effects, director Steve McQueen allows the viewer not just be horrified, but to empathize too.