• Jide Odukoya

Number 11 in our series where we ask photographers about their 5 favorite photographs; how and where the images were made.

• Davy Lane

What we learned from day seven of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.

• Cheta Nwanze

The writer is cautiously optimistic (for once) that Nigeria will win its third Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Justin Scott

• Steffan Horowitz

Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.

• Justin Scott

Should we care that Africa's richest book prize is paid for by a company with unethical business practices?

• Alice de Vries

Children's Radio Foundation's shows are a testament to children’s capacity to be agents for change and to confront critical community issues themselves.

• Megan Eardley

Director Andrew Okoko's "The Assassin's Practice" tampers with the tempo of melodrama. It's also Nollywood's response to Soderbergh's "Bubble."

• Justin Scott

The use of black and African pride by Western fast food chains to appeal to African-Americans in the United States.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Nicholas Barber

For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.

• Jumoke Verissimo

Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.

• Wills Glasspiegel

The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Can a rap music video do better than some journalism in showing the real, unvarnished existence of ordinary Nigerians?

• Yewande Omotoso

A South African writer gets invited to the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. Her main takeaway: writing is an act of faith; an ancient form of prayer.

• Tom Devriendt

• Marissa Moorman

The posters are tied to the Ghanaian and Nollywood film industries that emerged in the late 1980s.

• Jumoke Verissimo

Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.

• Basia Cummings

Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.