The BET Awards do Africa

• Boima Tucker

What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?

Congo Gold

• Wills Glasspiegel

Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."

Akin Omotoso’s Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A recurring theme in director Akin Omotoso's films is the fraught postapartheid relationship between Nigerian migrants and their South African hosts.

When Bob Marley went to Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Bob Marley, like many other Rastas, also shared a desire to visit the African continent or, if possible, to live there.

Sodade

• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

Africa is a Science Fiction Superpower

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°15

• Tom Devriendt

The abundance of black fashion

• Tanya Bindra

Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.

The Summer List

• Emily Wood

For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.

Summer in the City

• Wills Glasspiegel

The pick of summer 2012's shows and parties in New York City.

The indelible mark of the mbira

• Boima Tucker

The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.

Kehinde Wiley goes to Israel

• Orlando Reade

A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley's art practice.

Friday Music Break, N°24

• Boima Tucker

Soukous for Kabila

• Siddhartha Mitter

Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.

My favorite things from the last six months

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

10 African films to watch out for, N°11

• Tom Devriendt