• Katarina Hedrén

The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.

• Greer Valley

Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Sorana Munsya

Differences can be harmonious and allow people to come together despite their background and roots.

• Paula Akugizibwe

• Serubiri Moses

The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.

• Lineo Segoete
• Zachary Rosen

The story of Ba re e ne re, now probably Lesotho's premier literary festival as told by those involved from its start in tragic events.

• Nosarieme Garrick

• Katarina Hedrén

As a filmmaker, Matsetela wants to be an alternative voice, in a topography that’s filled with stories by others, like Django Unchained, defining black people.

• Lindokuhle Nkosi

“The metaphysical properties of hip-hop, the metaphors, helped me imagine a better world."

• Yvette Gresle

If "Exhibit B" truly offered the profound critique of slavery and colonialism its creators claimed, why the outrage? Why object to confronting silenced, gazing human “tableaux”?

• Natasha Mmonatau

For a number of reasons, the LGBTQ community in Botswana experiences less severe social and institutional backlash than elsewhere in Africa.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

How an an annual, independently-run series of events founded in 2011 in the Eastern Cape have propelled the genre in that South African province.

• Jeroen van Strien

What if the author, a Dutch blogger, had the chance to edit an "Africa"-edition of a prominent European magazine.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

Egypt has a sexual harassment problem. Two young women decided to make a film about it.

• 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.