Soulja Boy takes on Joseph Kony

• Sean Henry Jacobs

It has come to this. Musicians, especially rappers, had to wade in on the American social media campaign to “Make Kony Famous.”

Ne-Yo trying to adopt “African children”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Casting Djimon Hounsou

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Actor Djimon Hounsou doesn’t take his own advice about the media he makes about Africa.

World famous in South Africa

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Detriot singer Sixto Rodriguez’ albums are masterpieces – at times on par with some of Bob Dylan’s work – but he was only famous in South Africa

Paris a Continent … the Nike edition

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Music Break. Khuli Chana

• Tom Devriendt

Louis Moholo’s Drum

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The drummer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, now 72 and the last surviving member of the famed jazz bands The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breath, is still out there performing.

A visual history of African LGBTQ

• Basia Cummings

A quick review of films showing at two festivals with a focus on gay people: The Out in Africa Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Friday Music Bonus Edition

• Tom Devriendt

Out in Africa

• Basia Cummings

Writing gays and lesbians into the political and social history of South Africa – a history from which LGBT people are so often obscured and ignored.

The Afrikaans Film Template

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Feature films produced for the Afrikaans market in South Africa, have many distinctive characteristics, including that they’re exclusively white.

The White Nigerian

• Boima Tucker

How to celebrate International Women’s Day

• Dan Moshenberg

Film: “Imagining Emanuel”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A miserable fraud

• Elliot Ross

The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.

The University of Gnawa

• Sean Henry Jacobs