• 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.

• Masauko Chipembere

A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.

• Matthias De Groof

On anniversary of the birthday of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Congo, we ask, "What iconography arose around him, and why is that iconography so diverse?"

• Zahra Moloo

Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.

• Ethel-Ruth Tawe

In honor of Pride month, we revisit the past which shows that many Africans were unapologetic about their sexuality and gender non-conformity.

• Zachary Mondesire

During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan's independence struggle.

• Tammy Wilks
• Doseline Kiguru

The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.

• Xavier Livermon

Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.

• Mwongela Kamencu

Government money, artistic freedom, and integrity in Kenya in the time of COVID-19.

• Julie MacArthur

Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.

• Elizabeth W. Giorgis

First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women's histories.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?