Serge Alain Nitegeka exhibits in Ubuntu, a lucid dream at Palais de Tokyo, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi. The show brings together works which chime with the Ubuntu philosophy of “making humanity together” 'while attempting to approach it as a resource, a space for invention, or fiction, as well as a mediation with the real world'.

As one of six artists featured in The Momentary's group exhibition, In Some Form or Fashion, Simphiwe Ndzube explores the cultural implications of fashion and how identities are shaped by the garments individuals purchase, wear and dispose of, with a site-responsive, large-scale installation.

Zanele Muholi exhibits as part of Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection at the V&A Museum. 'The display highlights the diversity of a medium that, through its malleability, enables many different perspectives to be captured'.  

Neo Matloga forms part of a two-person exhibition at the Marta Herford Museum for Art titled We just want to be closer. Alongside photographer Singarum Moodley, the artist presents 'a multi-layered narrative about freedom and self-determination'. 

Works from Pieter Hugo, Viviane Sassen and Guy Tillim were selected for the 44th anniversary exhibition at Daimler Contemporary Berlin, titled Friendship. Nature. Culture. The collection's 3 000 works span 100 years, '[forming]  networks and [exploring] the interplay between art and human coexistence'.

Paulo Nazareth and Frida Orupabo feature in Though it's dark, still I sing, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. The exhibition includes the work of over 90 artists 'claiming the need for art as a field of encounter, resistance, rupture and transformation'. 

As part of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Frida Orupabo presents a solo exhibition at Museu Afro Brasil. This presentation combines photographs and images from the artist's personal archive to create digital collages that explore race, gender, identity, sexuality. 

Pieter Hugo's La Cucaracha is exhibited as part of Say it with Flowers, a site-responsive exhibition forming part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. The show aims to be a meditation on the significance of flowers and land within the framework of nostalgia and memory.

La Malmaison Art Center in Cannes presents 'Kingdom of Faith', Barthélémy Toguo's latest offering of a selection of works across mediums of painting, sculpture and installation. 

Scripto-visual, an investigation into the politics of representation by Meleko Mokgosi, takes place at The Current. Combining images, poetry and theory, Mokgosi aims to provide new frames of reference, 'which could be used to supplement the dominant and mostly Eurocentric forms of knowledge.'

Barthélémy Toguo presents Craving For Humanity at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. The exhibition follows the 'angle of intimate and collective experiences' with works by the artist hung alongside antiquities from the museum. 

Simphiwe Ndzube features in Lineages: Works from the Collection at the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale. The exhibition brings together works which speak to the museum's current show on Eric N Mack, highlighting 'contemporary artists whose work shares affinities with Mack’s poetic arrangements and thematic concerns'. 

Meschac Gaba, Zanele Muholi and Barthélémy Toguo feature in THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, taking place across ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark and Red Clay in Ghana. The exhibition seeks to 'disrupt a conventional and stereotypical western narrative of Africanness'.

Robin Rhode exhibits in FIRE IN MY BELLY at the Julia Stoschek Collection. Comprising film, video, photography, painting, sculpture and poetry, the exhibition seeks to examine the ways in which experiences of violence and loss are enacted, witnessed and transformed. 

Frida Orupabo exhibits in Toronto's historic garment district as part of the city's Public Art programme, ArtworxTO. The mural is the first in a two-part project, with the second work launching at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in May

Moshekwa Langa, Simphiwe Ndzube, Frida Orupabo, Penny Siopis, Barthélémy Toguo and Portia Zvavahera exhibit in Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23. The show features over 100 works by artists from the region and its diaspora. 

Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Odili Donald Odita, Robin Rhode, Guy Tillim and Portia Zvavahera are included in Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. 'Collapsing national borders, the artists in the exhibition ally with power, representing a kaleidoscope of voices that declare their authority.'

Meleko Mokgosi's Your Trip to Africa references Peter Kubelka's 1966 Unsere Afrikareise ('Our Trip to Africa'). Mokgosi adds 'a new emotional force, reversing the desensitized tone that often accompanies modernist aesthetic treatments of non-Western subjects'.

Pan-African Pulp, a commission by Meleko Mokgosi, is on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. His installation features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and 70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, and posters from pan-African movements around the world.