• Minna Zhou

An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Mawuena Akyea

The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sarah Burgess

Bombino, the Tuareg musician from Agadez in northern Niger, wants to show the world the multiple, and often joyful sides of life in the region.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, "L'Afrique Est Un Pays," as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.

• Shamira Muhammad

Valerie June admires Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba and a Nigerian blues singer she once heard in her car, but can't remember their name.

• Matt Temple

The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.

• Tom Devriendt

• Elliot Ross

• Zachary Rosen

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.

• Nicholas Barber

The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO's in Africa.

• Marissa Moorman

Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste are the classically trained violin and viola playing duo that anchor Black Violin.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sarah Burgess

Tal National's music is breezy, in all Niger's languages and about topics to which everyone can relate: love, peace, and the beauty of women.

• Dylan Valley

The difference between Isaac Mutant and Die Antwoord is that Mutant is the real deal.

• Connor Ryan

Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" and the growing desire for variety and novelty in Nigerian cinema.

• Corinna Jentzsch

A digital, more lo-fi interpretation of local Marrabenta mixed with dancehall and hip-hop, combined with a mid-tempo, laid-back vibe.