• Africa Is a Country

For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.

• Phoebe Boswell

How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.

• Alice de Vries

A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.

• Katarina Hedrén

Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.

• Mark Kaigwa

• Dan Moshenberg

In Kenya, women are organizing against the gender and moral police. Theyr'e using hashtags: #SavetheMiniskirt, #StripMeNot and #MyDressMyChoice.

• 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.

• Dennis Laumann

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

• Oumar Ba

Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He's always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.

• Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann

How much longer must we take everything with a pinch of salt or search for ways to laugh through the pain in our hearts? How much of our personal freedom and security do we have to sacrifice?

• Stephanie Diepeveen

• Mara Kardas-Nelson

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

• María Ximena Plaza

The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?

• Abdi Latif Ega

Kenyans employ all kinds of crude and unconscionable fascist statements towards anything Somali.

• Caitlin L Chandler

"The Samaritans" explores the absurdities of the NGO world. The main characters work for "Aid for Aid," a fictitious NGO that “does nothing.”

• Karen Obling

After years in South Africa, Ng'ok's work now explores her own relation to places, people and spaces of her native Nairobi.

• Zachary Rosen

Please do your research, stretch your tongue, and practice saying Lupita's name. The Kenyan actress, born in Mexico, plans be around at the top for a while.

• Zachary Rosen

Mainstream Western media outlets are only now learning to recognize and value diverse and creative African phenomena that have thrived for years.

• Steffan Horowitz

A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.

• Africa Is a Country