• Tom Devriendt

A group of British hip-hop and grime artists are determined to wrench back Black History Month there and in the US from the cynics.

• Tom Devriendt

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Even though music in Lesotho is dominated by its South African neighbors, there are local genres and artists which have managed to fare well commercially.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Abdourahman Waberi

At least 3 African writers are favorites for the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. They'd be the 5th African winner.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Ivorian international and CSKA Moscow footballer, Seydou Doumbia about the hardest thing to secure in the Russian capital: It's hard to get a fade.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Our latest Weekend Special includes a lot of football (soccer) and that the United States is “the most Africanized nation in the Western world.”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

“Before they lay your body down / you got to change the world before you six feet under the ground.”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Africa Is a Country

Nelson and Winnie Mandela's descendants fought apartheid for the right to make a reality TV show and South Africans fought for the right see it.

• Dylan Valley

Afrikaans has its roots as a Dutch Creole, spoken by slaves, slave masters and workers of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. A South African theater company took the play to The Netherlands.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

"Law and Order," opened its 13th season with a very transparent plot based on the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case. It is not very good.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Islam first came to North America with slavery, yet no major studio film has centered on the life of a Muslim American slave. Ibn Said's remarkable life could be a start.

• Tom Devriendt