• Justine Brabant

• Tom Devriendt

• Orlando Reade

The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

• Harry Stopes

A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.

• Harry Stopes

When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In what has little to do with the DRC, Affleck, dubbed Life President of Congo, gets hailed as "Hollywood’s New Role Model" and the "new paradigm of masculinity" in the entertainment world.

• Chandra Frank

The politics of selling African art mostly collected during colonial era to private collectors.

• Davy Lane

What we learned from Day Six of the 2013 African Nations Cup held in South Africa.

• Megan Eardley
• Steffan Horowitz

The United States' star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.

• Steffan Horowitz

Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.

• Shamira Muhammad

How a black French rugby player's crying during the playing of the country's national anthem was appropriated for all sorts of rightwing and reactionary politics.

• Nicholas Barber

For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.

• 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.

• Tom Devriendt

Number 3 in our series of short descriptions of ten new African films to watch out for.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• 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."

• Jogchum Vrielink

Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.

• Mikko Kapanen