• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the first of five articles on Afrobeat in South America, Simon Adetona Akindes discusses Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra and Bixiga 70 from Brazil.

• Thierry Michel

To put an end to general indifference about the 25 years of political violence in DR Congo, filmmaker Thierry Michel chooses to show the worst atrocities and to name the war criminals.

• Ran Greenstein

The Israel/Palestine system meets the definition of apartheid in international law, but presents different challenges for the campaign against it than was the case for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

• Zoë Wicomb

Zoë Wicomb thinks she knows why black South African readers appreciate Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Promise' (2021) whilst many white readers were turned off by it.

• Noah Tsika

'Neptune Frost,' written and co-directed by Saul Williams, knows that extraction is everyone’s problem.

• Sanya Osha

Jimi Solanke, now 80, was one of the key shapers of Nigerian theater and television in the second half of the last century. He is finally getting his due.

• Julie MacArthur

Director Shameela Seedat’s film about trainee lawyers provides a sort of celebration of youth on this continent and a vision of the next generation of Africans.

• Chinelo Okparanta

The Nigerian-American author of the novel "Harry Sylvester Bird" talks to the Radical Books Collective ahead of her appearance at their book club.

• Farah Bakaari

The British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s audacious yet uneven volume of poetry captures the quiet loneliness of African immigrant lives in the West.

• 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.