• Evelyn Owen

Africa-focused sci-fi films redirects science fiction so that it becomes a fissure in which new subjects can be seen and heard. One question, however, is who makes these films.

• Ryan Brown

Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.

• Megan Eardley

A part of Harlem's ballroom scene gets a makeover and a much needed funding injection and international exposure.

• Olufemi Terry

The songs that savor the writer Olufemi Terry's travels through the islands of Cape Verde.

• Orlando Reade

Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.

• Tom Devriendt

• Alice de Vries

White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.

• Emily Wood

Artists wanted to comment on the political struggles and religious undercurrents roughing up Tunisian society. Religious zealots, backed by the state, shut them down.

• Brett Davidson

As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.

• Tom Devriendt

• Orlando Reade

This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.

• Emily Wood

What's the story with The Very Best's video for the single "Kondaine," where they teamed up with an American NGO and shot it in very rural Kenya.

• Basia Cummings

A film series in London explores what it would mean imbuing Africa with extra-terrestrial powers. We speak to the curators, Al Cameron and Nav Haq.

• Basia Cummings

'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Yannick Létourneau talks about the genesis of his film about the Senegelese rapper, Awadi. Also, why so many political musicians come from West Africa.

• Jonathan Duncan

Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina's book, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," seems singular.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.

• Tom Devriendt

• Emily Wood

Matheka, through his photographs, aims to instil in Kenyans, and eventually all Africans, pride in their cities and pride in their place within them.

• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.