• Tom Devriendt

Weekend Break Number 52 feature, among others, Buika, TV On The Radio, Alex Lomani, Ill Skillz, Tamikrest and Stromae.

• Zachary Rosen

There is a time for everything: Between Afropunk and the passing of a musical legend, Sathima Bea Benjamin, is our Weekend Music Break.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This week's Weekend Music Break, no. 50, includes a homage to the 34 striking miners murdered by South African police in August 2012.

• Zachary Rosen

Weekend Music Break 49 makes stops in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and with the diaspora in Australia, among others.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

This edition of Weekend Music Break, number 48, curated by journalist and rapper T'seliso Monaheng, stops over in Senegal, Lesotho, Ghana and South Africa.

• Zachary Rosen

• Tom Devriendt

• Zachary Rosen

• Tom Devriendt

• Zachary Rosen

• Tom Devriendt

Weekend Special: The premiere of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's new film "Grigris" and the cover art for the Dutch translation of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, among others.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Zachary Rosen

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Our weekly update post of things we did not blog about includes a derby goal, a film about the Williams sisters and the passing of a major 20th century South African intellectual.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A bonus music break focused on jazz, including a conference on South African jazz, as well as the varied sounds of Jon Batiste, Guillermo Klein, Madeline Peyroux, Secret Society, and Moonchild,