• Erin MacLeod

The story of the Rastafari community who moved to their promised land of Ethiopia on land granted by Haile Selassie in the late 1950s as thanks for diaspora's support during the Italian occupation.

• Anakwa Dwamena

A Nigerian immigrant to the Bronx, New York, Osaretin Ugiagbe documents the lives of his friends and strangers on the streets.

• Robina Marks

A black woman, born in Cape Town, returns to the city to buy a house where she will hopefully retire.

• Noah Tsika

 The American network VICE turns to Nigeria and its film industry as a further source of wonder for its mostly white correspondents.

• 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."