• Orlando Reade

Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I participated in Sight & Sound's once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. I included at least two African films: "Borom Sarrett" and "Mapantsula." Hopefully, they make the cut.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Bukola Afolayan

Top photo tumblrs, not in any particular order, that Kola thinks you should be following if you have any interest in Africa.

• Tom Devriendt

• 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.

• Dan Moshenberg

It’s not even news that women and children leads AIDS activism in places like Botswana, except when it’s scanted. So, here’s a primer.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Dan Moshenberg

• Anonymous

Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.

• Brett Davidson

As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.

• Emily Wood

What's the story with The Very Best's video for the single "Kondaine," where they teamed up with an American NGO and shot it in very rural Kenya.

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We asked the Africa Is a Country "office" to comment on Nando's new ad that is supposedly a comment on the widespread antiblack xenophobia in South Africa.

• Brett Davidson

The limitations of working in the online space, given the small percentages of people with online access (despite the expansion of mobile technology).

• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

• Orlando Reade

• Boima Tucker

What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?

• Gregory Mann

Mali’s rebel armies, their shifting alliances and their fans make for quite a spectacle.