• Liz Timbs

Finding ways to deconstruct the legacy from reality when it comes to South Africa's democratic president, Nelson Mandela.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Bob Geldof doesn't need to do a #BandAid30 for Ebola. African musicians made a song already.

• Boima Tucker

This month's selection of tunes is from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, the United States, the U.K., Angola, and classics from East Africa.

• Duane Jethro

Public art, the vandalism of Nelson Mandela’s legacy for commerce and the spoiling of public space in Cape Town.

• Liz Timbs

An online archive of photos taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection housed in the UK's National Archives.

• Beza Tesfaye

There's something amazing about not being able to understand lyrics but still being able to comprehend what a song means.

• Indira Govender

A South African doctor working for MSF writes about her experience working in the Ebola zone in Sierra Leone.

• Ainehi Edoro

The writer Taiye Selasi doesn’t seem to realize there is a difference between identity as a subjective, biographical problem and identity as a legal and political reality.

• Katarina Hedrén

Filmmaker Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann sees film as a powerful tool to inspire compassion by briefly letting us live another’s life and expand our understanding.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Christopher J. Lee

Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.

• Benjamin Fogel

Done 'debating' whether “Larney Jou Poes” is free speech? Let's talk about the conditions of farmworkers.

• Africa Is a Country

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipsters Don't Dance 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for October 2014.

• Liz Timbs

Inaugurating our series on digital African projects. We'll document projects working to make more resources about Africa’s past and present available online.

• Elnathan John

Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Chimaechi Allan

While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Herman Wasserman

What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?