The Decade of Film

• 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.

Take The A Train

• Boima Tucker

Winter List: Festivals in Southern Africa

• Dylan Valley

Reading List: Lily Saint

• Lily Saint

The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she’s been reading.

Cargoland

• Jonathan Duncan

Romuald Hazoumé reminds us that like the perishing oil reserves being plumbed in Africa and around the world, water may soon also be fiercely fought over.

Wet Hot African Summer

• Megan Eardley

We’ve scoured the web to bring you the best and worst romance, adventure, intrigue, and kinky fantasies Africa has to offer.

Credit Credit Art

• Orlando Reade

The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London’s “Festival of the World with Mastercard.”

Summer in Paris

• Hinda Talhaoui

In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here’s a list of tunes for the northern summer.

More than one specter haunts South Africa

• Dan Moshenberg

Africa Tumblrs: microblogs for lazy readers

• Bukola Afolayan

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

The Summer List

• Emily Wood

For our traveling readers , here are a list of Africa-related exhibitions and readings this summer taking place in a wide range of cities around the world.

Summer in the City

• Wills Glasspiegel

The pick of summer 2012’s shows and parties in New York City.

Family Matters

• Mikko Kapanen

Does it matter whether the hip-hop artist Ismael Sankara is related to the great Burkinabe leader, Thomas Sankara?

Lesotho gets the Kristof Treatment

• Zachary Rosen

Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.

Silent Elections

• Tom Devriendt

Chop Cassava

• Basia Cummings

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.

What Happened to the African Renaissance?

• Gregory Mann

Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali’s crisis.

Madala Kunene for all seasons

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.

Friday Bonus Music Break, N°16

• Tom Devriendt

Desmond Tutu, the Patron Saint of Longboard Skateboarders

• Dylan Valley