• Patrice Nganang

The novelist on 3 books he returns to: by Wole Soyinka, Ibn Khaldun, and a third on the history and the system of writing of an early 20th-century Cameroonian king.

• Sebabatso C. Manoeli-Lesame
• Christopher L. Brown

Africa's engagement with the world before European colonialism holds unexpected episodes of un-colonial power relations.

• J.S. Arndt

Why languages, particularly black African languages, have become a battleground in postapartheid power and identity politics in South Africa.

• Nicky Falkof

What happens to the contemporary explosion of moral panics, urban legends, and other paranoid narratives when they manifest in a place like South Africa?

• Boima Tucker

This month on Africa Is a Country Radio, we continue our theme of sports and music, and look at the history of Olympic success in athletics of various African countries.

• Zeyad el Nabolsy

Must indigenous knowledge be science to be valid? Philosopher Paulin J. Hountondji shows that we must ask why Africa is scientifically and technologically dependent in the first place.

• Paul S. Landau
• Hlonipha Mokoena

The ANC and Nelson Mandela’s turn to violent anticolonial struggle in the early 1960s, is the subject of a new book by historian of South Africa, Paul Landau.

• Zachary Levenson

The historian Premesh Lalu’s film about an apartheid-era cinema on the Cape Flats also offers a glimpse of a future beyond racism for South Africa.

• Véronique Tadjo

To address a difficult and traumatic subject like Ebola, the writer Véronique Tadjo turned to oral literature for inspiration.

• Omole Ibukun

Beyond the social media firestorm over journalist Trish Lorenz’s book about #EndSARS, it is worth engaging in the debate about wider representation in movement building and protest.

• Matt Swagler

The film 'Congo Oyé,' pulled from the archives of a New York City library a decade ago, explores different interpretations of revolution, Black sovereignty and liberation.

• Eyerusaleam Kassahun
• Steven W. Thomas

For most outsiders, modern Ethiopian cinema means Haile Gerima and Salem Mekuria. But others, in addition to these, made its rich cinema history.

• Faisal Ali

The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.

• Lizzy Attree

The Kiswahili Prize works to undermine the marginalization of African languages in literary culture. An interview with one of its founders.

• Ashraf Kagee

A decision to rescind an invitation to Israeli academics to a conference in South Africa, revived a tactic of the anti-apartheid struggle. Is it effective?

• ICAADS Organizing Committee

The Sixth International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies in Accra in August 2023 foregrounds the struggle against African Studies as a form of knowledge production located, for the most part, outside Africa.

• Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

The author of 'The House of Rust' tells us all the little things (from foods to films) that get her imagination going.

• Boima Tucker

For World Refugee Day, Africa Is a Country Radio visited Tijuana, Mexico to talk with Josiane Moukam about what life is like for African migrants at the US border.

• Chris Webb

The Rise and Fall of National Wake, South Africa’s first multiracial punk band at the height of apartheid, that sang about state violence and political freedoms.

• Boima Tucker

This month on AIAC Radio, Boima invites Liam Brickhill to talk cricket, select some cricket related tunes, and glance at the game from the viewpoint of Zimbabwe.