• Clarissa Cummings

The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

• Jonathan Duncan

In Alain Gomis's "Tey', 'Aujourd'hui," a man lives the last day of his life.

• Megan Eardley

The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.

• Jonathan Duncan

An exploration of China's presence in Zambia, including suspicion, tensions and possibilities for collaboration.

• Tom Devriendt

• Dan Moshenberg

• Nicholas Barber

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

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa - where political and economic power are at odds - what happens in gay spaces?

• Brett Davidson

The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.

• Elliot Ross

Africa isn't a brand and we find the clamor for "positive news" from Africa inane and condescending.

• Wills Glasspiegel

The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Can a rap music video do better than some journalism in showing the real, unvarnished existence of ordinary Nigerians?

• Siddhartha Mitter

A review of a new memoir by Ghana's new President, John Dramani Mahama.

• Elliot Ross

By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.

• Megan Eardley
• Marissa Moorman

The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.

• Serginho Roosblad

In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.

• Marissa Moorman

The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.

• Jumoke Verissimo

Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.