• Ishtiyaq Shukri

Why the author asked for his work to be withdrawn from a prestigious literary competition.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Cornelia Knoll

Cape Town artists, Hasan and Husain Essop, tackle the struggle for land, adequate housing, education and equality in South Africa in their work.

• Africa Is a Country

Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.

• Chandra Frank

The Danish-Trinidadian artist Jeanette Ehlers is using the white man’s tools to strike back.

• Dylan Valley
• Africa Is a Country

Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.

• Boima Tucker

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance "Top World Carnival Tunes" for April 2015.

• Emmanuel Iduma

The Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma talks to American photographer and teacher, Eric Gottesman, about his work in Ethiopia.

• Ainehi Edoro

African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.

• Greg Scruggs

The resistance legacy of Brazilian slaves suffers from both romanticism and a spotty historical record. But it also persists as a potent social and cultural symbol.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Liz Timbs

• Pablo Medina Uribe

An interview with the director of the first-ever feature-length film in Quechua, spoken by many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes.

• Boima Tucker

• Zachary Rosen

• Ian Coss

Uniting a region - the music of eleven countries - and overcoming ‘World Music’ cliches.

• Zachary Levenson

A review of a documentary film about the life of Albie Sachs, a noted antiapartheid activist and later Supreme Court Judge in postapartheid South Africa.

• George Kibala Bauer

'Virunga' is an important film, even if it lacks perspectives from local stakeholders.

• Boima Tucker