• Fred Van Leeuwen

Liberians should not be guinea pigs in an experiment to transform public education into a market opportunity for foreign capital.

• Kenichi Serino

There have been few protests in South Africa’s post-Apartheid history that are as documented as Fees Must Fall. Add Aryan Kaganof’s “Metalepsis in Black” to the list.

• Boima Tucker

Contrary to the utopian dreams of the early internet, the idea of a more democratic communications space has given way to a system of capitalist exploitation, including how we consume music.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Few immigrants make the connection between their immigration status and the potential for deportation if they came into contact with the criminal justice system.

• Didi Cheeka

What personal and collective memory is evoked when we encounter films from a historical period?

• Chika Unigwe

For the Star Boys, a West-African performance collective based in Antwerp, Belgium, the dream of playing professional football in Europe found its revival in theatre.

• Shobana Shankar

The playwright Mfoniso Udofia is trying to debunk the “typical” understanding of Africa, and specifically Nigeria, in her work.

• Magee McIlvaine

• Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì

What's missing from feminist readings of Nollywood romantic comedy 'Isoken' are readings that gets at the film's racial politics.

• Wangui Kimari

The vivid cinematography of "Waithira," a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.

• Melusi Nkomo

We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.

• Samuel Fury Childs Daly

By volume, the most significant body of writing on Biafra is neither history nor fiction, but memoir. 

• Temitayo Olufinlua

Reflecting on the April 2017 visit of openly gay CNN business news presenter Richard Quest to Nigeria.

• Ben Gardner
• Ron Krabill

Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”

• A. Kayum Ahmed

Fallists draw on scholars and activists like Fanon and Biko, and concepts like intersectionality, to weave together a decolonial framework.

• Amatesiro Dore

"It was a lifetime performance of lies and false living. I played the role of a homophobic straight guy while I craved to hold the hands of a guy. I worshipped at the temple of homophobes while I prayed for a man to call my own."

• Ryan M. Nefdt

We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent's universities.

• Greer Valley

The exhibition 'Goede Hoop: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600,' in Amsterdam, is like making your way through a hall of mirrors.

• Nathan Yardy

New artistic possibilities are boundless for 360° film as the technology becomes more accessible.

• Samuel Argyle

For Abdullah Ibrahim, who converted to Islam in 1968, the "most beautiful, potent aspect" of his faith is "the unity of things."