• Steffan Horowitz

There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Jacques Enaudeau

Bousso Dramé, a young Senegalese winner of a French prize tells the organizers of a prize to shove it.

• Janette Yarwood

Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?

• Zachary Rosen

Takeifa's sound is a welcome alternative to the more common mbalax music that dominates Senegal's pop music scene.

• Janette Yarwood

A campaign in Senegal wants to put public pressure on the government to follow-though on criminal investigations in order to get justice for victims of violence and torture.

• Bukola Afolayan

Pierre Thiam, a Senegalese-born chef defining African restaurant food in the United States, argues that it is insulting to categorize African cuisine into one box.

• Tom Devriendt

• Boima Tucker

• Laurent Dubois

The historian Laurent Dubois watches the African Cup of Nations in Senegal and can't help mix it up with the history of colonialism and neo-colonialism in the region.

• Donata Columbro

The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society

• Jonathan Duncan

In Alain Gomis's "Tey', 'Aujourd'hui," a man lives the last day of his life.

• Gregory Mann

Francois Hollande want French-African relations to be transparent. Is this a new African policy or the old FrançAfrique?

• Tanya Bindra

Senegalese designer, Adama Paris, organizer of Dakar Fashion Week, gives her opinion on the representation of African designs and designers in the fashion industry.

• Bukola Afolayan

Senegal's scandal: Thousands of local boys or trafficked from neighboring countries (known as talibés) are forced into begging by religious teachers.

• Gregory Mann

Both of the front-runners, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist François Hollande, have run against FrançAfrique. Easier said than done.

• Basia Cummings

Ousmane Sembene's "Xala" (1974) is a powerful political narrative. At times edging toward the surreal, at others an acute depiction of the complexity of the freshly independent Senegal.

• Bukola Afolayan

Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.

• Tom Devriendt

• David Styan