• Kangsen Feka Wakai

Rapper Jovi has inducted himself into a club of Cameroonian artists who have embraced their own truths in the face of adversity.

• Hannah Borenstein

The international body governing track and field announced that the longest distance race to be held will be the 3000 meters. We know who will benefit least from this change.

• William Shoki

The emphasis on identity and difference act to temper the radical potential of South Africa's youth. They need an education on class politics.

• Panashe Chigumadzi

On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.

• R. Joseph Parrott

The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.

• Max Nelson

The late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety once said his films are not based on premeditation or planning.

• Ọláolúwa Òní

Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.

• John Stephens

News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.

• Marame Gueye

Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson
• Stephanie J. Urdang

A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.

• Abdi Latif Ega

Every time you project terror onto Somalis, remember to ask how we live in Mogadishu.

• Maja van der Velden
• Martin Oteng-Ababio

The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."

• Nabil Ayouch
• Theo Zenou
• Joseph Pomp

A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.

• Hisham Aïdi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.

• Endre Dalen

Once we're done talking about its viral quality, is Toto's "Africa" a song about the continent with the same name, or a song about how millions of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?

• Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann

Drawing on a long history of political art and protest and to bypass old media censorship, Sudani artists go to the street and online to complement street protests.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

How could thinking with Africa help us fulfill our humanity? And might thinking with Africa open up a possibility for world-making?

• Nikitta Dede Adjirakor

When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.