• 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.

• Steffan Horowitz

They used the same examples every trendy Western fashion or pop culture publication do, when they run special issues on South Africa.

• Shamira Muhammad

A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?

• Africa Is a Country

Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.

• Emily Wood

Guinean-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba deftly "merges" aesthetic traditions.

• Tanya Bindra

Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.

• Elliot Ross

• Tom Devriendt

• Basia Cummings

Puma created new kits for African teams ahead of the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At first sight, it looks exciting. Up close, the designers stuck to conservative.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dylan Valley

In hoods in 1980s South Africa, 20-cent pieces were used to play the old bootleg arcade games at corner stores. It also inspired a clothing label.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Botswana has a thriving heavy metal scene. These metal heads have their own specific style too.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sonja Sugira

Charles Taylor’s trial at the International Criminal Court is verging on the trivial.