• Khanya Mtshali

The release of 'Renaissance' in Israel has spelled the end of informed indifference when it comes to Beyoncé and other stars who choose to do business with the apartheid regime.

• Naledi Mbaba

Beyonce offered me escapism in my childhood. But now I see the contradictions and shortcomings in her claimed radicalness.

• Takondwa Semphere

Beyoncé, 'The Lion King,' 'Coming to America,' and the complicated politics of African representation in Black American cultural production.

• Russell Rickford

It took time to digest Beyonce's Black Is King. Conclusion: it fails to deliver us. Instead, it's just another capitalist construction of the world.

• Elliot Ross

Did Goodluck Jonathan allegedly take US $1m from an anti-poverty fund to allegedly bring Beyonce and Jay-Z to Nigeria in 2006?

• Tom Devriendt

Beyonce has been accused of appropriating others' work without attribution. The latest is a Belgium choreographer and her dance company.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A few of those things we missed, tweeted or could not get to this past week.

• Tom Devriendt

We're not sure what Beyonce is trying to say with her music video for her female empowerment song, "Run the World." You're guest is as good as ours.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Allison Swank

A number of North American pop artists have lent their star power to African dictators.