• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipsters Don't Dance Top World Carnival Tunes for November 2014.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

It’s very difficult for Spaza (hip hop done mostly in Xhosa) and Afrikaans hip hop to organically co-exist.

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world's eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.

• Cristina Moreno

Understanding the complex cultural history of Africolombians and how difficult it has been for its artists to fight for recognition.

• K. Leander Williams

Singer Kaneng Lolang is a cosmopolitan currently living in Ouagadougou. She’s spent quality time in Siberia and Brooklyn, but her roots are in Nigeria, Lagos, specifically

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Janette Yarwood

As far as rap group Keur Gui are concerned, nothing has changed in Senegal.

• Christine Hogg

A punk festival comes close to what one would imagine the DIY-embracing, eccentricity-accepting and obedience-ignoring CBGB’s of the ‘70s to have been like.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.

• Beza Tesfaye

There's something amazing about not being able to understand lyrics but still being able to comprehend what a song means.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Christopher J. Lee

Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.

• Africa Is a Country

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Herman Wasserman

What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?

• Ts'eliso Monaheng