• Alex White

At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Nigeria's archives of revolutionary printmaking offers us insights into the dissident voices of the country's old left, which are surprisingly relevant today.

• Khanya Mtshali

In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.

• Thandi Gamedze

Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.

• Alex Park

The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.

• Londiwe Gamedze

The film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

• 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 the savannas of West Africa are 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.'