• Liz Timbs

The Hip Hop African is a podcast series about African hip hop culture made by Howard University and George Washington University students.

• Dan Magaziner

How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre? 

• Christine Hogg

'Words of a Rebel Sistah' wants to create a counter-culture in which women are liberated and all forms of oppression are eradicated.

• Sisonke Msimang

A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.

• Villy

In this installment of our "Liner Notes," the Nigerian musician, Villy, writes about his band's EP, "Humananimals."

• Nadia Davids

South African creatives of Muslim background interact matter-of-factly with their social identity. An interview with playwright and novelist Nadia Davids.

• Ashwin Desai

First class cricket in South Africa, once a white man's preserve, is now technically open to all, but it is a game of money, dazzle, dancing girls and quick results.

• Boima Tucker

Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Today, 30,000 of the 235,000 Ghanaian immigrants to the US call New York City home.

• Yousef Khalil

One of the most enduring legacies of colonialism is the idea that it is impossible to contemplate a future in which the rest of the world does not resemble Europe.

• Dilip M. Menon

Debates about Gandhi represents a deeper crisis about belonging, entitlement and exclusion in postcolonial Africa.

• Katarina Hedrén

The classic film, first premiered in 1991, is making a comeback. Not least: Beyoncé’s visual album 'Lemonade' borrows liberally from Julie Dash's film. Why is the film so influential?

• Abraham T. Zere

• Joan Hambidge

Zoë Wicomb's fellow South African, JM Coetzee once wrote: "For years we have been waiting to see what the literature of post-apartheid South Africa will look like. Now Zoe Wicomb delivers the goods."

• Jamie Hitchen

Seeking to interrogate unhelpful media (and official) narratives that permeate everyday discourse and obscure the truth about these terrorist organizations is important.

• D.S. Battistoli

The judgment that Sankara was a hero rests in part on what was politically possible in Burkina Faso in the early 1980s.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Interview with historian Dan Magaziner about his new book, The Art of Life in South Africa, about one of the few art schools training black art teachers under Apartheid.

• Sisonke Msimang

Winnie was everything Africans - and African women in particular - were not supposed to be.

• Africa Is a Country

• Amy Niang

Reigniting an important debate on the entanglements between the production of justice and the fragility of continental legal mechanisms.