• Haythem Guesmi

In the latest controversies about race and ancient Egypt, both the warring ‘North Africans as white’ and ‘black Africans as Afrocentrists’ camps find refuge in the empty-yet-powerful discourse of precolonial excellence.

• Rama Salla Dieng

The fiction of Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla not only used speech to create worlds and ways of being in the world, but used speech as a world and a character in its own right.

• Amber Bal

Set in newly independent Mali, 'Dancing the Twist in Bamako' is neither propagandistically praiseful of socialism nor does it present it through a wholly negative lens.

• Zachary Mondesire

If a better world is possible, let us meditate on its constituent parts—the institutions, communities, and relationships, argues Felwine Sarr.

• Unifier Dyer

The film 'Neptune Frost' reduces the gulf between Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism by connecting their shared vision against violent systems of domination.

• Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga chronicles life, death, return and grief in her story collection, 'Igifu.'

• Tabara Korka Ndiaye

The Senegalese director, Safi Faye’s classic 1996 film, Mossane, is a love tragedy and a spiritual quest in Sereer land.

• Mphuthumi Ntabeni

If an author writes with empathy, precision and authenticity about experiences foreign to their own, they're a good writer and not a cultural appropriator.

• Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb thinks she knows why black South African readers appreciate Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Promise' (2021) whilst many white readers were turned off by it.

• Chinelo Okparanta

The Nigerian-American author of the novel "Harry Sylvester Bird" talks to the Radical Books Collective ahead of her appearance at their book club.

• Marta Mboka Tveit

The rise of African Speculative Fiction and other exciting cultural production indicates that modernity is not an exercise in “catching up” with Europe, but an entirely new condition.

• Joanna Woods

What kinds of radical emancipatory futures are being imagined in Africa’s speculative fictions?

• Taiwo Egunjobi

Director Taiwo Egunjobi disavows Nollywood’s penchant for crass comedies and maudlin dramas.

• Ainehi Edoro

African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The online retrospective, “Literary Sudans," is intended to highlight the two Sudans as sites of literature and culture.