• Zayaan Jappie

Zambian artist, Sampa the Great, returns to the stage in Australia with "An Afro Future." In an interview, she talks reconnecting with her roots and redefining the future.

• Noah Tsika

Lindsey Green-Simms’ book "Queer African Cinemas" explores the intersections of postcolonial thought, queer theory, and screen media.

• Mustapha Saha

Activist Blondin Diop and artist Samb are exemplars of Senegal’s post-independence promise and crisis, marked by the global uprisings of May 1968. Mustapha Saha was a friend to both of them.

• Chérif Keïta

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Jane Duncan

The cultural boycott of Russia turns to the flawed precedent of apartheid South Africa for inspiration, while ignoring the much more carefully considered boycott of official Israeli culture by the BDS Movement.

• Liam Brickhill

A people’s history of Zimbabwe’s first mbira punk band, Chikwata 263, who wanted a soundtrack for the country’s post-post colonial blues.

• Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's novel "The Theory of Flight" may be the first to take seriously Zimbabwe’s complicated race politics, beyond the obvious black vs whites.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Thoughts on the conclusion of the 2021 African Cup of Nations.

• Steven W. Thomas

The women filmmakers in the Ethiopian diaspora who have taken the risk of dedicating their lives to documenting their homeland.

• Molemo Moiloa

Two books, by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and journalist Barnaby Phillips respectively, detail how we got to this point in the restitution of African heritage.

• Toni Kamau

How the film, 'I am Samuel' about a gay Kenyan couple was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board.

• Ebony Bailey

The Jamaican born filmmaker, Lebert Bethune, who was close to Malcolm X, made two films that deftly explored Black identity at the end of the 1960s.

• Suzana Sousa

In contemporary Angola, the gap between the public discourse on culture and the on-the-ground reality of the arts and culture sector is deepening.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For all the grief Afropunk gets, including its commercialization and appetite for expansion, it still manages to bring people, mostly black, together over two days for a pretty great party.

• Liam Brickhill

Kyle Shepherd’s new music blooms brightly from out of the shadow of pandemic and considers what it means to be South African, African, and human.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Wọle Ṣoyinka's new novel examines a country caught in the crosshairs of unimaginable events.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This #ThrowbackThursday piece from 2007 on Vanity Fair's famous "Africa" issue, makes for fun, at times depressing, reading of the debates we hopefully left behind.

• Sara Hanaburgh

In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?

• Michael de Vulpillieres

One of the evolving themes about Algeria's Hirak movement is how it reinvigorated protest among Algeria's diaspora, including in the U.S.

• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained—if ultimately pessimistic—critique of Nigerian corruption.