• Anneke Rautenbach

Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.

• Russell Rickford

No primer aniversario do estreno do filme 'Black Panther,' re-publicamos o ensaio de Russell Rickford traducido em Português.

• Mark Hunter

Constant attention to segregation in formerly white South African schools limits our understanding of how race works in the school system.

• Benjamin Talton

There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa's history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.

• Kajsa Hallberg Adu

The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana — first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States — says a lot.

• Abdallah S. Lubala

The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers' union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.

• Bentley Brown

2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad's first feature film, 'Bye Bye Africa.'

• Abdi Latif Ega

In Somalia young people are the majority, yet have to act and perform “age" — appear older — to succeed or get anywhere in life.

• Angelo Gavrielatos

The latest trick is to transfer tax-payer funded aid aimed at Africa and the Middle East into the pockets of corporations and individuals.

• Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
• Rafeeat Aliyu

Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria

• Robert Trent Vinson

Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?

• Wangui Kimari

Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro's toxic, racist, rightwing regime?

• Haythem Guesmi

Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.

• Melchisedek Chétima
• Scott MacEachern
• Walter van Beek

Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?

• Gabeba Baderoon

There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.

• Norbert Odero

The power of having a god who resembles us.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.

• Vik Sohonie

Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.

• Ashoka Mukpo

Scandals like the one at More Than Me — the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff — are common in even the most elite aid organizations.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.