The photographer Paul Strand’s Portraits of 1960s Ghana

• Zachary Rosen

With Kwame Nkrumah’s support, Strand’s last major photographic project was of Ghana over three months between 1963 and 1964.

Have we learned nothing?

• Cecelia Lynch

Representing Africans as helpless and without dignity while showing ourselves as knowledgeable problem-solvers is the problem and not part of the solution.

Football between above and below

• Pablo Medina Uribe

In “Futebol Nation,” British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.

Making Azonto: Local Roots and International Branches

• Boima Tucker

Giving politicians a lyrical trashing

• Janette Yarwood

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

Belgium’s blackface problem

• Heleen Debeuckelaere

Racism in Belgium is endemic, and not taken seriously. Few people talk about it and even fewer are listening.

Kenya gets an Art Fair

• Gemma Solés

Kenyan artists have to grapple with a number of challenges, including how to use digital platforms to promote and sell art at a fair price.

Soweto Punk Revolution

• 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.

Nelson Mandela founded a beauty contest

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it’s the right time to do it more regularly.

The limits of the idea of “alternative Africas”

• Laura J. Mitchell

How much energy should we invest in counterfactuals like: What if a diminished Europe, devastated by a plague, did not produce colonial powers, how might Africa’s history have unfolded?

5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Jihan El-Tahri

• Katarina Hedrén

Mexico’s deadly virus

• Santiago Solorzano

Moni

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Fifty Four Kingdoms

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The apparel and accessory company, 54 Kingdoms, makes fashion with “a pan-Africanist sensibility.” They thought the African Cup of Nations is a good place to start.

Bienvenidos a América Latina es un país

• Camila Osorio Avendano
• Pablo Medina Uribe

Latin America is a Country is the newest member of the Africa is a Country family. The section is coedited by Pablo Medina Uribe and Camila Osorio.

The Digital Mandela

• Liz Timbs

Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa’s democratic president, Nelson Mandela.