• Robina Marks

It took the writer, later South Africa's ambassador to Sri Lanka, 30 years to talk to her mother about rape. Her mother's rape.

• Wilfred Okiche

“A Hotel Called Memory” concerns itself with elements of mood and scene and downplays aspects relating to plot or story.

• Lucien van der Walt
• Peter Cole

A new history of a radical union that profoundly impacted Southern African politics.

• Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.

• Nikkie Wiegink

The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down. 

• Boima Tucker

This weekend's music break is dedicated to the isla del encancto.

• Matt Carotenuto

The Nobel Prize for Literature buzz around Ngugi’s wa Tiong'o's points to both his seminal contributions to African literature but also his work to kept the memory of Kenya’s divisive past alive.

• Paul Hicks

Pragmatism dictates how many young Tanzanians view a Chinese education: A Chinese education was seen as a logical pathway to securing well-paying reliable employment.

• Sisonke Msimang

Reading three contemporary South African women authors: Lindiwe Hani, Pumla Gqola and Redi Tlhabi.

• Wangui Kimari

What characterizes daily life in Kenya: a seemingly simultaneous flagrant zest for life and hesitant fascination with death.

• Corinna Jentzsch

The dominant approach to revitalizing national parks is one-dimensional and sees local residents as obstacles rather than partners.

• Savo Heleta

For those not familiar with academic publishing, prominent peer-reviewed journals are not expected to publish garbage promoting colonialism.

• Noah Tsika

Nigerian filmmakers are embracing the short form as more than just a cinematic calling card.

• Daylin Paul

• Greg Scruggs

The depressing new norm for one of the most vibrant grassroots, immigrant cultural traditions in New York City.

• Boima Tucker

• Liz Timbs

Anthropologist Johnny Miller's aerial photographs chronicles geographic stratifications in South Africa and beyond.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

An edited version of this post appeared in the South African newspaper, City Press, as part of "Thought We Had Something Going," an e-anthology exploring post-1994 experiences.

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

In his life and books, Alex La Guma struggled for a society in which all people could find their humanity, argues his friend Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

• Michael Mutyaba

A group of young Ugandans employ poetry and storytelling to speak out against state repression, corruption and abuse of power.