• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

Senegalese writer Mbougar Sarr on how we are actually informed about symbols we want to bring down, and about those we wish to commemorate.

• Mordecai Ogada

News reports claiming that “wet markets” in Asia are the source of the coronavirus obscure the fact that the consumption of wild animals is common in the West.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game.

• Tarminder Kaur

What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.

• Peter Alegi

A new documentary about Liverpool FC striker, Sadio Mane, is watchable, but suffers from the fallacy that sports and politics don’t mix.

• 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.