Culture which confronts and unsettles in Mali, Egypt and Nigeria

Five years after Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, the government's counter-revolutionary war is being fought through cartoons and music. Khaled Diab reflects on the artistic merits of the state sponsored art and propaganda.

Despite recent terror attacks and Islamist attempts to ban music, a new music festival has been established in Mali's capital Bamako. Organiser Fatoumata Sow explains what the Festival Acoustik Bamako wants to achieve.

Wana Udobang considers why art featuring nudes is still seen as subversive in Nigeria.

On the eve of Valentines Day, Dean Atta shares a new poem about self love.

(Photo: Protest at the Egyptian embassy in Berlin. Credit: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)