• Anne Pitcher

In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.

• Kristin Otto

Among the Ga people of Ghana, there's more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.

• Joeva Rock

Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.

• Wahbie Long

The major problem with the term "decolonization" is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.

• Ainehi Edoro

A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.

• Lawil Karama

A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.

• Lamin Fofana

An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.

• Boima Tucker

A border crossing mix of Afrobeats and Zouk and an interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic music producer, Lamin Fofana.

• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Harri Englund

In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.

• Caitlin L Chandler

"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for—it's really its own country."

• Vanessa von Gliszczynski
• Julia Friedel

The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?

• Boima Tucker

Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.

• Wangui Kimari

Invisible City [Kakuma], a film about Kenya's largest refugee camps, seems keen on making a point but is anchored on unsteady ground (with some shitty translation).

• Christopher J. Lee

'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.

• Savo Heleta

The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.

• David Edwards

The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.

• John Stephens

The global response to a disease that largely effects the most marginalized populations of poorer countries shows a basic lack of respect for human rights on the part of international institutions.