• Africa Is a Country

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Ghana is currently experiencing a surge of contemporary performing and visual arts. Here are some notes on goings on about Accra-town.

• Ang Lloyd

The frustration or inability to establish an identity that is free of hegemonic constructed myth – that ceases to be at odds with current reality.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

An interview with the artist Lalla Essaydi who seeks to challenge Orientalist mythology in her work.

• Paulo Moreira

A conversation with the curators of the Angolan Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Considering James Town's weighty history, which played a huge part in shaping Ghana, it seems only right that when re-imagining a future Accra we start at the place where the city began.

• Orlando Reade

The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia's colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.

• Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi

Emeka Ogboh's experimental videos and soundscapes of Lagos, Nigeria.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In 1988, Basquiat traveled to Cote d'Ivoire, anticipating "very unsophisticated" Africans would see his art. That's not what happened.

• Simone Bertuzzi

• Basia Cummings

Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.

• Grace Benton

The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.

• Megan Eardley

It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.

• Basia Cummings

In her work, Ellen Gallagher defiantly challenges linear perspective to redress what fellow African-American artist Theaster Gates has called "the African non-archive."

• Steffan Horowitz

Two Nigerian-American brothers hope to bring a unique African cultural perspective to cartoons, comics and animation, where Africans are usually absent.

• Orlando Reade

An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Orlando Reade

An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.

• Basia Cummings

Cristina De Middel self-published book "The Afronauts," revisits the 1960s shortlived, abandoned project by Zambia's government to send the first African astronauts to Mars

• Grace Benton

Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki: "If we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else is going to do it."