• Phokeng Setai

In his latest exhibition, Khanya Zibaya charts the psychic and spatial terrain of a city where homelessness, decay, and human resilience sit uneasily together.

• Bárbara Rousseaux

Drawing on his forced migration from Rwanda, Serge Alain Nitegeka reflects on the forms, fragments, and unsettled histories behind his latest exhibition in Johannesburg.

• Joy Odondi Mala

In Najaax Harun’s paintings, the self confronts its own reflection — haunted, tender, and unafraid to transform.

• Chéri Samba

Across five decades, Chéri Samba has chronicled the politics and poetry of everyday Congolese life, insisting that art belongs to the people who live it.

• Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi

In 1991, acclaimed South African artist Helen Sebidi’s artworks were presumed stolen in Sweden. Three decades later, a caretaker at the residential college where they disappeared found them in a ceiling cupboard, still in their original packaging.

• Arpita Mandal

Leila Aboulela’s historical novel of nineteenth century Sudan tells the story of one of Africa’s first successful, anticolonial uprisings.

• Dina A. Ramadan

Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian-American painter, defies expectations that artists of color should produce representational work.

• Cassi Namoda

The painter Cassi Namoda situates herself squarely in the artistic history of Mozambique, especially its rich tradition of anticolonial photography, as she turns outwards to the world.

• Michael Armitage

The painter talks about how the distance between Nairobi and London allows him to take on topics at the heart of Kenya’s body politic.

• Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi’s multimedia works offer complex views of history and powerful critiques of pan-Africanism and the postcolonial moment we are currently living.

• Bimbola Akinbola

Beauty, stillness, and connection in Lagos, Nigeria.

• Joseph Underwood

The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.

• Liese Van der Watt

• Basia Cummings

Julie Mehretu's canvases depict a public zone dichotomous to that of their own surrounding, brimming with a sense of the life of a city which we can never really know or measure, whose politics is alive but oddly incubated.

• Orlando Reade

An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.