• Sean Henry Jacobs

It's unfunny and borderline offensive. But Late night TV talk shows can't get enough of it.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Mara Kardas-Nelson

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

• Tim Foresta

• Fanta Sylla

Does the graphic novel, 'Aya of Yop City', retain its texture in its transformation to the screen?

• Sabelo Mkhabela

A short profile of the music scene in Cape Town is dominated by white shows – with a lot of electrocentric music and flashy strobe lights.

• Shobana Shankar

Forced conversion as a strategy exclusive is not to Islamist terrorism in northern Nigeria. Everyone's been in on the act.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The novelist and Nobel Prize winner on why he avoids social media entirely, saying he doesn’t tweet, blog, or engage with what he calls today’s increasingly promiscuous digital platforms.

• Boima Tucker

• Wolfram Lange

Brazilians may have produced the first ever afrobeat.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.

• Dan Moshenberg

Workers in the Western Cape's wine district describe a place where bosses engage in a reign of force and aggression, and where workers are “afraid to die too soon.”

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Emile Maurice

Peter Clarke, who passed away on April 13, 2014, was an elder statesman of South Africa's arts community.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Serge-Armand Kouami Noukoue

For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.

• Mahmood Mamdani

An extract from Mahmood Mamdani's seminal study, 'When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda."

• Ed Pavlić

The second in a series of four posts to commemorate James Baldwin's 90th birthday.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Why you've got to love the way the South African tabloid newspaper Daily Sun reported Caster Semenya's marriage to her girlfriend