• 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.