• Mishca Peters

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

• Robyn d'Avignon

If savanna West Africa is a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Tadiwa Madenga’s latest book offers us a biographical portrait of Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera written through her love of plants, gardens and nature.

• Fouad Mami

A new book argues for the centrality of Congolese elites and regional powers in perpetuating domestic conflict, but it too easily lets the West off the hook.

• Mquzama

What does it mean to be Malawian?

• Njuki Githethwa

Recognizing and appreciating creative writers in Kiswahili de-centers the use of imperial and borrowed languages in African literatures.

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A tribute to the late Kenyan poet, playwright and activist, Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo (December 12, 1942-June 30, 2023).

• Brian Kamanzi

Load-shedding, deepening privatization, and unaffordable electricity makes it difficult to imagine a pivot away from the neoliberal approach to South Africa’s climate crisis.

• Ahmed S. Ibrahim

In Somalia, poets are considered organic public intellectuals.

• Gerald Horne

In the 1970s, Kissinger believed that the liberation of southern Africa from white-minority rule represented a Cold War setback.

• Daniel Hammett
• Laura S. Martin
• Izuu Nwankwọ

What is the relationship between humor and politics in Africa?

• Welcome Mandla Lishivha

Telling one's story as a black queer person isn't yet the luxury it is chalked out to be, especially when it remains dangerous to be queer in the world.

• Faeeza Ballim

What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?

• Ray Bush

Post-Colonialisms Today provides an antidote to Western-centric analysis of Africa in a special issue of 'Africa Development.'

• Mohammed Jameel Abdulla

The tragedy of settler-colonialism.

• Kebotlhale Motseothata

How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.

• Joeva Rock

We often hear from Western donors that Africa suffers from food ‘scarcity.’ The real problem is the exploitation of African land, labor, and knowledge.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?

• Keith Mundangepfupfu

Although visibility is important, contemporary queer African literature reveals how easily representation privileges narratives of the resourceful and upwardly mobile.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Frustrated by most of his contemporaries, but supported by like-minded friends, Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera forever changed our notion of what African literature is.