• Panashe Chigumadzi

Poet Mongane Wally Serote’s 40-year lament, still haunts Black South Africans: “it is only in our memory that this is our land.” The land haunts our memory, and, in turn, we haunt the land’s memory.

• Nicole Rizzuto

Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels offer a skepticism against the cultural politics of packaging African stories for global circulation and consumption.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature win raises questions about the role of the LitNobel and how they construct what we think of and buy as African literature.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Wọle Ṣoyinka's new novel examines a country caught in the crosshairs of unimaginable events.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This #ThrowbackThursday piece from 2007 on Vanity Fair's famous "Africa" issue, makes for fun, at times depressing, reading of the debates we hopefully left behind.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk, we speak with Leswin Laubscher and Derek Hook about the phenomenology of Franz Fanon and the ways he is understood throughout different eras of time.

• Wandia Njoya

Colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya have worked to separate education from access to culture and information. It is an outdated model.

• Wangui Kimari

The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.

• Sara Hanaburgh

In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?

• Nomi Dave

Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?

• Tolulope Itegboje

Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.

• Carol Thompson

More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced.

• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained—if ultimately pessimistic—critique of Nigerian corruption.

• Sindre Bangstad

Antonio Tomás’ new book on Amilcar Cabral takes us back to the crucible of decolonization and permits us to assess its aspirations and limitations anew.

• Philipp Schütz

The late Alemayehu Eshete, and musical contemporaries like Mulatu Astatke and Girma Beyene worked around huge obstacles to create a unique Ethiopian sound and make it global.

• Sakiru Adebayo

A vernacular attempt at a social anthropology of dogs across three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and Canada.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Johannesburg with South African journalist Sean O'Toole. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.

• Alexander Hartwiger

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fiction rebukes the Orientalist images of the Muslim world that provided a rationale for the war on terror.

• Adriaan van Klinken
• Ezra Chitando

The leading African writers and creative artists who are reimagining Christian thought and the several Christian-inspired groups who are transforming religious practice.