• Panashe Chigumadzi

On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.

• Nabil Ayouch
• Theo Zenou
• Joseph Pomp

A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Bentley Brown

Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”

• Drew Thompson

Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa's liberation struggles.

• Carli Coetzee

A radical feature on South Africa's literary calendar, Abantu celebrates black intellectual labor, and resists the tropes that marginalizes it.

• Serubiri Moses

Bisi Silva's constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.

• Duane Jethro

A documentary film about a black filmmaker and her struggles to make a film about Marike de Klerk.

• Ethel-Ruth Tawe

The film, "The Burial of Kojo," sparks a vital conversation about the intersections of heritage, politics, and spirituality in Ghana and in Africa at large.

• Zoé Samudzi

The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.

• Kajsa Hallberg Adu

The contrasting receptions for high profile visitors to Ghana — first Prince Charles and Camilla from the UK, then a group of African-American celebrities from the United States — says a lot.

• Bentley Brown

2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of Chad's first feature film, 'Bye Bye Africa.'

• Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
• Rafeeat Aliyu

Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria

• Alex Park

In recent years, Rwanda and Ethiopia have been some of the largest recipients of aid money from the UK and US governments, as well as some of the West's leading philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.

• Vik Sohonie

Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.

• Lawil Karama

A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.

• Lamin Fofana

An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.

• Boima Tucker

Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.