• Boima Tucker

• Benjamin Lebrave
• Oualid Khelifi 

The El Foukr R'Assembly collective wants to challenge dominant ideas of African identity and cultural diffusion on both sides of the Sahara.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipster's Don't Dance's Top 10 UK-based Afrobeats Tunes of 2014.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Annual review: Hipsters Don't Dance's "Top 10 African-Caribbean Collaborations" of 2014

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world's eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Africa Is a Country

• Wolfram Lange

Brazilians may have produced the first ever afrobeat.

• Boima Tucker

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

• Boima Tucker

• Zachary Rosen

• 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.

• Boima Tucker

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

• Dylan Valley

Youngsta built a reputation on doing “straight up Cape Town hip hop,” but his recent output suggests he is now appealing to mainstream audiences.

• Boima Tucker

Afrobeats is broadly what most people think when they try to define black music in the UK. But it is hard to pin down.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The New York Times' chief theater critic, surprise, misses the point about the musical, "Fela!"

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Fela's AIDS diagnosis and denialism was fairly well known and an open secret.