• Prexy Nesbitt

Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.

• Jordan G. Teicher

Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

A new book of essays offers a nuanced glimpse into the complexities of reporting on the Arab world, including North Africa.

• Greg Thomas

The works of Frantz Fanon can be read as architectural renderings of rights, futures, and generations toward a “very different Afro-futurism.”

• Serawit Bekele Debele

Irreecha, an annual ritual celebrated at the end of Ethiopia’s rainy season, offers a window into contemporary socio-political issues.

• Lily Saint

The historical novel is in vogue across the continent, challenging how we conceive of the nation, and how we write its histories.

• Charles Etubiebi

A Nigerian play and its leading man confront western misrepresentations.

• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Daniel Steyn

South African film production house kykNET's dominance skews storytelling on the country's screens.

• Nathan Yardy

While Sisulu's political career is less celebrated than Nelson Mandela, it was as remarkable.

• Greer Valley

Decolonizing museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artifacts.

• Ari Sitas

The world is out of joint and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of its great public intellectuals, has left us—albeit with tools to battle the dying kicks of capitalism.

• Debbie Onuoha

A new film by Aiwan Obinyan explores the origins and "ownership" of a now-famous cloth.

• Renée Mussai

Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.

• Sisonke Msimang

Reflecting on white joy, black celebration, and the meaning of the Springbok win at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

• Noah Tsika

After having a heart attack, a white American falls in love with his Nigerian nurse in the CBS TV sitcom, Bob Hearts Abishola. It is also about Nigerian-Americans’ visibility on mainstream US television.

• Derek Charles Catsam

We should not let the achievements of a multiracial Springbok rugby team, led by its first black captain, be commodified and commercialized in the service of neoliberalism.

• Jesse Bucher

Historian Marissa Moorman wrote an important book about radio and modern state power.

• Daniel Linde

The late Springbok rugby wing's legacy needs to be sustained, and the hope that he represented is perhaps more critical than ever.

• Dzekashu MacViban

A conversation with the founding editor of Bakwa Magazine—created to amplify new writing from Cameroon and from the African diaspora.