• Suchitra Vijayan

Under Modi, Africa will not just be a continent where India expands its economic footprint, but also builds, protects and projects its power.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

It's unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can't get enough of it.

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Tom Devriendt

Why is Toto's 'Africa," a song with ridiculous lyrics, so popular with everyone? It has to be the melody and the hook.

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.

• Shamira Muhammad

Africa is everywhere on "Landing on a Hundred," the new album by American guitarist and singer, Cody ChesnuTT. It's in the instrumentation, the arrangements and in his voice.

• Emily Wood

Plying potential audiences with expansive vistas, mystery, exotic landscapes, and ancient holdovers are time worn formulas when presenting Africa to Western audiences.

• Aaron Kohn

In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.

• Boima Tucker

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

• Elliot Ross

The video, "African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes," made by an American NGO, is part of the "Brand Africa" discourse that's all the rage now.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

• Sonja Sugira

Chris Abani's musings on telling African stories gets at just about everything Sonja thinks about as she encounters "Africa" every day, and then attempt to write about it.