• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Jessica Blatt

Hollywood films about Nelson Mandela separates him from the movement that produced him. The fact is, movements made Mandelas, not the other way around.

• Sarah Burgess

Safiath, ZM, Habsou Garba and Fati Mariko: producing diverse sounds in rap, hip-hop and soul.

• Serginho Roosblad

Parody performers, the Naija Boyz, take on Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball." It is unclear what they're trying to say.

• Minna Zhou

The film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the questions and limits of what one will do for love, told by an unorthodox filmmaker.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

The Brother Moves On is not anti-ANC. Their new music rather speaks to the ideals of the liberation movement and asks if this is what we fought for.

• Orlando Reade

Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.

• Minna Zhou

An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Mawuena Akyea

The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?

• Steffan Horowitz

A rare and informative glimpse into a situation and part of the world that normally only receives minimal, lazy, and inaccurate coverage.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sarah Burgess

Bombino, the Tuareg musician from Agadez in northern Niger, wants to show the world the multiple, and often joyful sides of life in the region.

• Marta Tveit

Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.

• Zachary Rosen

Jimmy Nelson's photographs are deliberately constructed to capitalize on his own vision of these groups.

• Africa Is a Country

• Arnaud Contreras

Since 1999, Contreras has documented, via documentary films, radio programs and photographs, dramatic changes to the Sahara.

• Peter Rachleff

Nokutela Dube wasn't just the wife of John Dube, one of the founders of the continent's oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, "L'Afrique Est Un Pays," as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.

• Shamira Muhammad

Valerie June admires Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Miriam Makeba and a Nigerian blues singer she once heard in her car, but can't remember their name.

• Matt Temple

The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.