• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained—if ultimately pessimistic—critique of Nigerian corruption.

• Sindre Bangstad

Antonio Tomás’ new book on Amilcar Cabral takes us back to the crucible of decolonization and permits us to assess its aspirations and limitations anew.

• Philipp Schütz

The late Alemayehu Eshete, and musical contemporaries like Mulatu Astatke and Girma Beyene worked around huge obstacles to create a unique Ethiopian sound and make it global.

• Sakiru Adebayo

A vernacular attempt at a social anthropology of dogs across three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and Canada.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Johannesburg with South African journalist Sean O'Toole. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Alexander Hartwiger

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fiction rebukes the Orientalist images of the Muslim world that provided a rationale for the war on terror.

• Adriaan van Klinken
• Ezra Chitando

The leading African writers and creative artists who are reimagining Christian thought and the several Christian-inspired groups who are transforming religious practice.

• Rasaq Malik

Sound Sultan, who died of cancer in July 2021, battled with the cankerworm of bad leadership and outright violations of rules of law in his homeland, Nigeria, through his songs.

• Liam Brickhill

Vinyl reissues are about engaging in a fight against forgetting much more than music. Gideon Nxumalo and Spirits Rejoice's music is transcendent of repressive daily conditions.

• Benjamin N. Lawrance
• Vusumuzi R. Kumalo

Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.

• Peter Lockhood

Kenya’s elites, including the church, use ponzi schemes for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see their dreams deferred if the law doesn't change.

• Sara Hanaburgh

An interview with Kate Gondwe, Founder and President of Dedza Films, on a groundbreaking distribution initiative committed to supporting the next wave of emerging filmmakers and communities.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Nairobi with Kenyan journalist and radio programmer Bill Odidi. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
• Simidele Dosekun

To have—or, at least, claim—a sense of self that is “already empowered” or happily unencumbered by power relations, requires a fair bit of material privilege.

• Leila O. Tayeb

What happens when we take the study of whiteness from settler colonial contexts into the postcolony?

• Ishtiyaq Shukri

We tell our stories when we are ready. This story is about the child sexual abuse I experienced at the hands of Anglican priests in South Africa.

• Moses E. Ochonu

The tendency of Western commentators to dress up African tragedies in the patronizing logic of relativism.

• Simon Akindes
• Matthew Kirwin

A homage to a true pan-African athlete-activist, Lee Evans, who at the Olympics Games in 1968 broke the 400-meter world record and embarked on a life of political activism.

• Amal Hassan Fadlalla

To undo the misrepresentation of women of color in global media, we need a historically grounded solidarity.

• Lizzy Attree

What literature can teach us about what happens when the chain that connects human beings to nature is broken.