• Kwanele Sosibo

While hip-hop can still connect us to our higher selves, its mainstream adaptations reveal that it is inherently human and not free from flaws.

• André Naffis-Sahely

Alessandro Spina produced one of the greatest indictments against colonialism and jingoism, as well as a tribute to the Mediterranean’s cosmopolitanism.

• Sandra Krampelhuber

We asked the participants at a symposium in Austria on European Africans to reflect on what an Afropean is. We edited it into a short video.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Kwesi Shaddai

The Black American activist's relevance for today's generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

• Africa Is a Country

• Dylan Valley

The Sudanese film, "Beats of the Antonov," explores the connections between the bombs of oppression and the resilience of culture.

• Africa Is a Country

The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.

• Matt Keaney

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The South African struggle suggests that sports boycotts are effective at forcing change. For white South Africans (and their apologists), sporting isolation was a bitter pill to swallow.

• Sarah Ladipo Manyika

in places like Lagos where the healthcare system is inadequate and health workers constantly on strike, people rely on prayer.

• Brittany Meché

The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics 'Come Back Africa,' late-1980s 'Mapantsula' and Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'

• Rustum Kozain

James Matthews has the distinction of being one of the first Black Consciousness poets and publishers in South Africa. He is the subject of a documentary by director Shelley Barry.

• Dylan Valley

The progressive rock of The Brother Moves On is a great case study for why the category of "world music" is at best dated, and at worst problematic.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Once a month Hipsters Don't Dance will bless Africa Is a Country with their top 5 World Carnival tunes.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Victor Ehikhamenor

Professor Soyinka's steps were smart and sure, not betraying his age and decades of struggle against the vilest rulers Nigeria has had.

• Leila Dee Dougan

The artist Umlilo documents their metamorphosis from a tortured outsider to a fully realized divine being.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

We went on a hunt for some South African rap songs about marijuana and emerged with a list ranging from Youngsta, Mothipa's Mpharanyana and Hymphatic Thabs.

• Salym Fayad