• Corinna Jentzsch

“Africa is finally seizing control of its image” goes the mantra. But which Africa and which image?

• Dennis Laumann

A New York Times article that's respectful and mostly accurate, including the use of terminology, when covering African Traditional Religion.

• Orlando Reade

The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

• Katarina Hedrén

The South African feature film, "Of Good Report," deals with the relationship of a teacher with his underage student. The local censors decided it is a crime to screen it.

• Tom Devriendt

• Antoinette Engel

South Africa's film censor bans the film 'Of Good Report' by Jahmil XT Qubeka, which deals with predatory teachers.

• Tom Devriendt

• Harry Stopes

A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.

• 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.

• Anthea Gordon

The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.

• Zachary Rosen

• Sarah Emily Duff

One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.

• Africa Is a Country

A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.

• T.O. Molefe

Fresh as the sea and funny, or tired, racist bull?

• Herman Wasserman

On a visit to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, academic Herman Wasserman gets reminded of home and how people perceive him.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.

• Zachary Rosen

Thina Zibi demonstrates with her images the incredible innovation evident in contemporary South African design and style.

• Africa Is a Country

What are some Africa Is a Country editors and contributors reading during their northern hemisphere summer break?

• M. Lynx Qualey

Finding more multilingual literary pathways will benefit all of African—and world—literatures.

• Grace Benton

The South African photographer Gideon Mendel's images of people affected by flooding in seven sites, including Nigeria.