• Wangui Kimari

Re-visiting Nairobi's urban history offers a glimpse into the forces that shaped modern life.

• Miriam Jerotich Kilimo

New biographies reveal Wangari Maathai as a reflective scholar and critical thinker.

• Issa Shivji

A new biography of Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere, reveals a complicated legacy.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

• Phindi Mnyaka

One of the few books about photography to come out of the continent and where the majority of contributors are African and work on the continent.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

A new book of essays offers a nuanced glimpse into the complexities of reporting on the Arab world, including North Africa.

• Shannon Morreira

Medical anthropologist Julie Livingston argues that the conditions of capitalist modernity in which we live are not sustainable and are leading to increased rather than lessened inequality.

• Lindsey Green-Simms
• Brenna Munro

Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we're witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.

• Zain R Mian

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: colonial and neocolonial rule cannot survive without the work that prisons perform.

• Flavio Rizzo

New Warscapes volume explores travels and lives of migrants and refugees beyond mainstream portrayals.

• António Tomás

The glut of books on Fanon serve as a guide for reading him through the challenges of our present. But they also reveal the extent to which reading Fanon today is not such a straightforward operation.

• Sean Jacobs

Interview with historian Dan Magaziner about his new book, The Art of Life in South Africa, about one of the few art schools training black art teachers under Apartheid.

• Chris Webb

Rewriting history from below in South Africa by utilizing the voices of workers and their survivors themselves.

• Caitlin L Chandler

In "One Day I Will Write About This Place," Wainaina wants to create a life uniquely his own.