• Sean Henry Jacobs

For all the grief Afropunk gets, including its commercialization and appetite for expansion, it still manages to bring people, mostly black, together over two days for a pretty great party.

• Nomi Dave

Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?

• Lynn M. Thomas

The intersecting dynamics of class and gender, changing beauty ideals, and the expansion of consumer capitalism in Africa.

• Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

African women, both at home and in the diaspora, use beauty, fashion and other aesthetics to simultaneously celebrate, navigate and challenge social and cultural norms.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

An Australian sports apparel company makes shirts for low profile national soccer teams, including a number of African ones.

• Tyler McBrien

The color red, berets, and plain workers’ clothing have all become potent aesthetic symbols for South Africa's EFF.

• Lineo Segoete

The Basotho people must have a stake in the production and distribution of their culture.

• Muti Phoya

Bantu Khamuladzi are pioneers of Malawian hip hop. Like most first generation African hip hop artists, they mimicked American styles, then found their own voices.

• Kathleen Bomani

Designer Akosua Afriye-Kumi: "A lot of designers take or find inspiration from  Africa, I want to do the same but actually be in Africa doing it."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with "a pan-Africanist sensibility." They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.

• Leila Dee Dougan

Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.

• Janette Yarwood

The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."

• Oluwatone Akindele

• Clarissa Cummings

Black women have no say in what is pretty considering it is the job of non-white women to dispel the standards of beauty, and white women to reinvent it.

• Shamira Muhammad

If mainstream fashion showcases won’t open its doors to the “others” and black fashion showcases aren’t willing to show the breadth of silhouettes, then there is much more at stake than not having a dark-hued covergirl.

• Zachary Rosen

Thina Zibi demonstrates with her images the incredible innovation evident in contemporary South African design and style.

• Roxsanne Dyssell

For our series interviewing the new generation of African creatives, we sent questions to designer. Olalekan Jeyifous. We asked him for his five favorite designs.

• Bukola Afolayan

Sbujwa is a South African dance described as a dance that requires every muscle in your body to work in order to complete the moves.

• Aaron Kohn

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

• Orlando Reade

The artist Hassan Hajjaj frames his portraits of ordinary Moroccans with a neat shelf crammed with 7 Up and Coca-Cola cans, symbols of a burgeoning import market and aspiration.