• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The link between knowing history and political agency in northern Ghana.

• Nsubuga Ssemugooma

The identities, liberal or homophobe are cultural and political. They are not a perfect mirror of the narrative of homophobia in Africa.

• Kenichi Serino

Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.

• Omolade Adunbi

Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.

• Kristin Otto

Among the Ga people of Ghana, there's more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.

• Joeva Rock

Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.

• Ainehi Edoro

A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.

• Lawil Karama

A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.

• Harri Englund

In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.

• Caitlin L Chandler

"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for—it's really its own country." – Mohamed Jeballa, partner in a popular Sudanese restaurant in the city.

• Vanessa von Gliszczynski
• Julia Friedel

The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?

• Wangui Kimari

Invisible City [Kakuma], a film about Kenya's largest refugee camps, seems keen on making a point but is anchored on unsteady ground (with some shitty translation).

• Christopher J. Lee

A new, massive collection of published and unpublished works by Frantz Fanon, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.

• Jeanne Boyat

When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.

• moshood

In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common.

• Jonathon Repinecz

Homosexuality continues to be a dangerous topic in Senegal. There, as in much of the African continent, heteronormative behavior is enforced with violence.

• Fatou Wurie

Sierra Leoneans take center stage as storytellers and active witnesses in a new documentary about the Ebola outbreak.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.

• Kambale Musavuli

The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.