• Clarissa Cummings

The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.

• Boima Tucker

• Tom Devriendt

Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces breaks down his 'Pungwe' mixtape for us.

• Megan Eardley

Can young Angolan activists inspired by Angola's underground rap scene take on a political elite that has ruled for decades?

• Tom Devriendt

In this Weekend Bonus Music Break, No.23, features musicians as diverse as Ghanaian-Swiss duo, OY, to familier sightings on Africa Is a Country: Spoek Mathambo and Sinkane.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

South African jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's life complicates jazz history and shows how Africans reshaped American jazz in the 20th century.

• Jonathan Duncan

In Alain Gomis's "Tey', 'Aujourd'hui," a man lives the last day of his life.

• Tom Devriendt

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch comedy about an interracial relationship may shape Dutch views of black people there in very negative ways from which they may not recover for a while.

• María Ximena Plaza

Colombians and outsiders continue to associate Afro-Colombians largely with dance or music. This is a problem.

• Megan Eardley

Director Andrew Okoko's "The Assassin's Practice" tampers with the tempo of melodrama. It's also Nollywood's response to Soderbergh's "Bubble."

• Megan Eardley

The film, "Veejays," comes across as an earnest attempt to learn about the ways people are remixing dominant culture industries to make their own.

• Justin Scott

The use of black and African pride by Western fast food chains to appeal to African-Americans in the United States.

• Lindiwe Dovey

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Aaron Leaf

The Danish filmmaker believes his work contains qualities missing from most conventional journalism. Especially journalism dealing with Africa