• Christine Hogg

'Words of a Rebel Sistah' wants to create a counter-culture in which women are liberated and all forms of oppression are eradicated.

• Villy

In this installment of our "Liner Notes," the Nigerian musician, Villy, writes about his band's EP, "Humananimals."

• Boima Tucker

Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.

• Africa Is a Country

• Boima Tucker

• Anakwa Dwamena

Art – especially music – occupies a double-edged place in Ghanaian history in its relation to power.

• Delasi

This selection of smooth Afropop illustrates Delasi's transnational vision for contemporary African art and music.

• Africa Is a Country

Music Break Number 102 goes out to our American family, set to face four years of struggle against a new set of rulers.

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

Blood Orange and Sampha are two London-raised artists with Sierra Leonean roots, currently making waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Alex Werth

Collapsing the binaries hard-wired into the logic and narrative of “uber-gentrification;” the latter representing the conquest of science over art, technology over soul and innovation over old.

• Christine Hogg

The Edge of Wrong Music Festival in Cape Town adds value, especially in places where radio airtime has until very recently been monopolized by the American pop genre.

• Boima Tucker

• Olugbenga Adelekan

Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.

• Thembi Mutch

Why are we so averse to acknowledging complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art that emerges from and in Africa?

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Benjamin Lebrave

It is rare in much of Africa to see a festival line-up of both established and up and coming artists performing with a full band.