• Steffan Horowitz

A Kenyan film asks in order to evolve, what part of ourselves do we keep and what part do we leave behind.

• Etienne Shardlow

A playlist of jazz tunes dedicated to South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.

• Duane Jethro

Are corporate entities really well intentioned in celebrating Mandela the freedom fighter or are they merely using these tributes to position their brands on the right side of history?

• Netta Kornberg

Netta Kornberg watch film trailers so you don't have to: This time, Namibian short films are the focus of her #TrailerTakedown.

• Farzanah Badsha

For the author, watching memorials for Mandela, South Africans have lost their ability to generate theater, the theater of the mass event.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Jessica Blatt

Hollywood films about Nelson Mandela separates him from the movement that produced him. The fact is, movements made Mandelas, not the other way around.

• Sarah Burgess

Safiath, ZM, Habsou Garba and Fati Mariko: producing diverse sounds in rap, hip-hop and soul.

• Serginho Roosblad

Parody performers, the Naija Boyz, take on Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball." It is unclear what they're trying to say.

• Minna Zhou

The film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the questions and limits of what one will do for love, told by an unorthodox filmmaker.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

The Brother Moves On is not anti-ANC. Their new music rather speaks to the ideals of the liberation movement and asks if this is what we fought for.

• Orlando Reade

Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.

• Minna Zhou

An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Mawuena Akyea

The Ghanaian dance music craze has finally arrived in the United States after sweeping Europe and the continent. Will it catch on here?

• Steffan Horowitz

A rare and informative glimpse into a situation and part of the world that normally only receives minimal, lazy, and inaccurate coverage.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Sarah Burgess

Bombino, the Tuareg musician from Agadez in northern Niger, wants to show the world the multiple, and often joyful sides of life in the region.

• Marta Tveit

Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.

• Zachary Rosen

Jimmy Nelson's photographs are deliberately constructed to capitalize on his own vision of these groups.

• Africa Is a Country

• Arnaud Contreras

Since 1999, Contreras has documented, via documentary films, radio programs and photographs, dramatic changes to the Sahara.