Boddhi Satva and Kaysha bring Congolese Music to the deep end

• Boima Tucker

New Muslim Youth Culture

• Ayesha Hasan

Hisham Aidi’s book ‘Rebel Music' remixes race, faith, and geography

Typical Colombians

• Pablo Medina Uribe

"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.

The Rise of a Post-colonial University

• Ruchi Chaturvedi

Googling “Jan van Riebeeck”? This is for you

• Zubeida Jaffer

Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.

Memorializing all Kenya’s terror victims

• Binyavanga Wainaina

"I want to go to a place ... where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963."--Binyavanga Wainaina.

How to Govern Nigeria

• Akin Adeṣọkan

The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.

We’ve Resurrected Weekend Music Break. Here’s No.68

• Boima Tucker

How to make sense of #Garissa

• Africa Is a Country

For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.

Jonathan runs out of Goodluck

• Ebenezer Obadare

Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.

Zimbabwe from A to Z

• Farai Mudzingwa

I is for Independence: That revolutionary moment when we as a new cowntry, ended our reliance on colonial governments for civil services, and instead, started relying on NGOs.

Will Africa’s Industrial Revolution Be Made in China?

• Mark Weston

In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.