• 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."

• Norbert Odero

A Kenyan scientist wonders how Senegalese found ways to blend African spirituality with Islam.

• Rich Blint

The latest entry of the brilliance of James Baldwin on film, "I Am Not Your Negro," lays bare the fiction and terror of race in American life.

• Katarina Hedrén

Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' should be seen as part of the Afrofuturism genre, which offers physical and mental liberation through supernatural or non-realistic means.

• Riason Naidoo

Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.

• Zachary Rosen

• Shayera Dark

If being Nigerian meant anything, the presidency wouldn’t be rotated every eight years between the North and South or along tribal lines.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?

• Sisonke Msimang

An in-depth look at the life and times of Winnie Madizikela-Mandela largely in her own words.

• Boima Tucker