• Marian Burchardt

Some churches in South Africa have become embroiled with criminal economies.

• Vishnu Bachani

A new documentary about Equatorial Guinea and the exiled writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel provides an honest, critical examination of the country's political, social, and cultural issues.

• Sara Hanaburgh

Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun utilizes the fluid space of the Sahel to demonstrate the power of cinema as a limitless art.

• Jeremy M. Rich

The book 'Emerald Labyrinth' explores American and Congolese efforts to document species biodiversity.

• Wanuri Kahiu

The director of Kenyan film 'Rafiki' discusses leading the struggle against state sponsored censorship in Kenya right now.

• Lily Saint
• Bhakti Shringarpure

What if you survey African literature professors to find out which works and writers are most regularly taught? Only a few canonical ones continue to dominate curricula.

• Banwo “Proficience” Olagokun

A fan of rapper Naira Marley writes that it will take more than counter-cultural popularity to effect any tangible change in Nigeria.

• Mitchell Edwards

Local traditions of crisis management have largely been shed along the path to “development.” The age of COVID-19 is the time to recover them.

• Myrakel Baker

We're back with another playlist of songs for your weekend!

• Seble Samuel

The exhibition, 'Men Lebsa Neber,' features a staggering collection of the clothes and stories of rape survivors across Ethiopia.

• Russell Rickford

The blitz on monuments signifies not the abandonment of history, but rather the rejection of a narrative of modernity created by the heirs of global plunder.

• Emeka Joseph Nwankwo

Pressure on African writers to avoid the criticism of poverty porn limits the imagination of the writer and the ability to speak truth to power.

• Kim Gurney

How do we deal with the unfinished business of the past? Cape Town has a surprisingly poetic answer.

• Isaac Otidi Amuke

COVID-19 re-affirmed journalism is a public good, yet as newsrooms collapse, journalism is in danger.

• Motheo Mofokeng

Drummer Asher Gamedze’s new album is a groundbreaking body of work in the musical trajectory of South African jazz.

• Leila Hassan
• Farruk Dhondy

Leila Hassan and Farouk Dhondy worked at the UK publication Race Today that chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.

• Hannah Borenstein

When a young Ethiopian, Haile Gerima, made a film about the exploitative nature of American college sports and the role of Black athletes in society.

• Khadim Ndiaye
• Salian Sylla

What explains this reluctance to discuss the permanence of symbols honoring slave traders and colonialists in the public spaces in both France and its former colonies?

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

With a new book, Chimurenga resurrects Festac, the blackest and largest ever gathering of artists from Africa and its diaspora in 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria.

• Maimouna Thior
• Adama Pouye

Islam is interpreted to establish the dominance of men, and this male supremacy is at the root of all our problems.