• 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.

• Ismay Milford

How an experimental periodical led by an individual editor thrived in Nasserist Cairo even though it never joined the canon of revolutionary print.

• Kebotlhale Motseothata

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

• Alex White

In the 1960s, two African nationalist magazines shared a name—but declassified files reveal that they were on opposite sides of a literary Cold War.

• Nombuso Mathibela

During apartheid, literary magazine 'Staffrider' flourished from its ability to represent multiple social visions. However, it struggled to achieve the same in democratic South Africa.

• E.N. Mirembe

In doing the intellectual activist work of editing and supporting cultural production, literary magazines have been crucial for Black cultural renaissance.

• Sarah K. Miles

In its first few years, the magazine 'Révolution Africaine' opened possibilities for Franco-Algerian cooperation. It was then co-opted by the state.

• Mahvish Ahmad
• Koni Benson
• Hana Morgenstern

Revisiting the papers of left, anti-colonial revolt from the continent can remind us of messy, rich alternatives.

• Steffan Horowitz

Globetrotter's organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.

• Sean Jacobs