• Maaza Mengiste

The imperial legacy of the camera and the narrative power of words and images.

• Greg Burris

Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.

• Lynn M. Thomas

The intersecting dynamics of class and gender, changing beauty ideals, and the expansion of consumer capitalism in Africa.

• Vishnu Bachani

Onejoon Che's film about North Korea’s relationship to African countries suggests a unique transcontinental relationship that resists easy classification.

• Rosebell Kagumire

The coverage of African women in the mainstream media continues to be lacking and often times problematic. The website, African Feminism, wants to change that.

• Chris Webb
• Donald Donham

There’s a certain humanity in the work of late South African photographer Santu Mofokeng in how he approached his subjects and the politics of representation.

• Robtel Neajai Pailey

The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.

• William Shoki

Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.

• Liz Timbs

What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?

• Jordan G. Teicher

The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.

• Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe

Afro-feminism does not make enough of an effort to connect with the African feminist movement, argues the founder of Eyala.

• Tsogo Kupa

Queen Sono may be Netflix’s most popular series, but it may not be the right home for the new wave of African film and television.

• moshood

Among other notable achievements, Wole Soyinka made political music. In 1983, he even released an album.

• Tiffany Mugo

The Hub of Loving Action in Africa (HOLAA), promotes conversations about African experiences with sex and sexuality.

• Ruth Bush

Rama Salla Dieng talks with a British literature scholar on literary activism in French.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?

• P. Wenzel Geissler
• Ruth J. Prince

COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.

• Nombuso Mathibela

From exile, bassist and composer, Johnny Mbizo Dyani (1945-1986), explored and promoted the folk music traditions of South Africa.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

There is a disconcerting resemblance between how some Senegalese talk about homosexuality and how they discuss COVID-19.