• Delali Adogla-Bessa

To be African means at some point to desire to leave. African cinema can provide solace for our tortured relationship to the West and our own continent.

• Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

Nollywood makes more films than Hollywood and Bollywood. What it lacks is strong marketing and promotion.

• Danny Hoffman

Gregg Mitman’s 'Empire of Rubber' is less a historical reading of Liberia than a history of America and racial capitalism through the lens of a US corporate giant.

• William Shoki

The 22nd FIFA Men’s World Cup, held in Qatar, is getting political. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the sport and the politics with Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs.

• Hanan Al-Alawi

Political encounters between the Arab Gulf and Africa span centuries. Mahmud Traouri's novel 'Maymuna' demonstrates the significant role of a woman’s journey from East Africa to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Uganda has never qualified for the World Cup, but at a continental level it is making a comeback. So is its club football.

• Gargi Bhattacharyya

More than class solidarity alone, more than a technocratic climate justice, a reckoning with empire is necessary for our collective survival.

• Mona Hakimi

It’s not common knowledge that there is Iran in Africa and there is Africa in Iran. But there are commonplace signs of this connection.

• Maya Bhardwaj

Queer Indians are largely invisible in South Africa's LGBT discourse. But representation is not enough, we need political transformation and multi-racial class solidarity.

• William Shoki

Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.

• Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?

• Khanya Mtshali

Although films like 'The Woman King' offer us a small glimpse into the past, they cannot give us the full story.

• Jill E. Kelly
• Jabulani Sithole

New Zulu king Misuzulu's strategy for ensuring the relevance of his monarchy copies from the Windsors in Britain: use the media.

• Bronwen Mehta

Political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s collection of writings are a powerful and evocative reminder that democracy in Egypt remains a bleak prospect.

• Moses E. Ochonu

Africans have been decolonizing, critiquing, but also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times. Pro-democracy and decolonial intellectuals owe a debt to this body of work and can learn from it.

• Shimrit Lee

The author of 'Decolonize Museums' assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.

• Christopher McMichael

The crime drama 'Reyka' looks at violence in the troubled South African province.

• Rémy Ngamije

Rwandan-Namibian writer and founder of Doek! arts organization shares his sober routine and dramatic daydreams.

• Robert Trent Vinson

The spread of Garveyism from the US to Africa was as much about political liberation as it was religious salvation.

• William Shoki

This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss a new posthumous collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainana.