• Ari Gautier

A historical novel by Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin narrates an unusual love story between a slave and a princess.

• Paul T. Clarke

In his new book ‘The Blinded City,’ Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon takes readers into inner city Johannesburg not as it was or could be, but as it is.

• Mphuthumi Ntabeni

If an author writes with empathy, precision and authenticity about experiences foreign to their own, they're a good writer and not a cultural appropriator.

• Imane El Fakkaoui

For African women passing through Morocco en route to Europe, begging on the streets becomes a way to support themselves, but also reinforces humiliation and shame.

• Marie Meyerding

Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa's first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.

• M. Lynx Qualey

Libyan writer Ibrahim Al-Koni’s latest novel is a philosophical retelling of the story of Amazigh queen Al-Kahina.

• Mahvish Ahmad
• Koni Benson
• Hana Morgenstern

Revisiting the papers of left, anti-colonial revolt from the continent can remind us of messy, rich alternatives.

• Helen Epstein

Uganda’s rulers don’t get that clobbering words is impossible. The pen will escape every hammer, and cross borders to haunt oppressors, even if the authors are no longer around.

• Ousseina D. Alidou

Hausa poetics of compassion and resistance in northern Nigeria in the age of pandemics and neoliberal democracy.

• Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Documenting an urban housing crisis and how tens of thousands of informal workers and unemployed people struggle to reshape Johannesburg.

• Rama Salla Dieng

Safi Faye's 1976 film, 'A Farmer's Love Letter,' exposes the gap between the post-colonial state and the concerns of ordinary people.

• Jacob K. Olupona

Indigenous traditions possess the greatest potential for developing robust civic values and identity in Africa.

• Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman

Mainstream discourses about Aamajiranci, northern Nigeria’s Qur'anic schooling system, expose the power politics of knowledge in postcolonial societies.

• Christopher McMichael

A bleak new television drama, ‘Donkerbos,’ explores secrets in small town South Africa, but fails to offer alternatives to the tropes of good vs evil.

• Rafael Verbuyst

Khoisan Consciousness is sweeping across South Africa. Exploring multiple perspectives is vital to make sense of it.

• Désọ́lá

The "follow-back" economy of Nigerian Twitter represents a struggle for recognition in a vastly unequal and status-obsessed society.

• Tabara Korka Ndiaye

The last film of underappreciated Senegalese director, Khady Sylla dealt with mental health. It is worth revisiting it now for its groundbreaking portrayal of depression suffered by two women friends.

• Emilie Guitard

The second 'Black Panther' film is a fierce critique of the West's (neo)colonial adventures in Africa and the Americas.

• Yasmina Price

Director Alice Diop’s 'Saint Omer' is preoccupied with what binds women together, the traumas that are inherited, shared and possibly overcome.

• Anwār Omeish

Fanon Studies has stubbornly failed to consider how Algeria may illuminate Frantz Fanon’s theoretical commitments.