• 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.

• Joe Kobuthi

The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famine of biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food has never just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Food is identity.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Ronnie Close

The author of a book on football and revolution in Egypt gives us a list of must reads on football in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Shahenda Suliman

Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.

• Dionne Searcey

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times' Bureau Chief for West Africa.