• Steffan Horowitz

Why is the great director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) making a state-sponsored biopic?

• Mary Goodhart

• Nicole Gerber

There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there's an election he exploits ethnic divisions.

• Steffan Horowitz

Harry Belafonte and Martin Scorsese are planning a TV series on King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal rule in the Congo.

• Johan Palme

How can the Nigerian government be willing to lend treasured objects to an institution tha still keeps the shameful booty from colonialism's crimes?

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Considering James Town's weighty history, which played a huge part in shaping Ghana, it seems only right that when re-imagining a future Accra we start at the place where the city began.

• Chandra Frank

Redmond is an Amsterdam-based intersectional feminist media collective, organizes conversation about beauty ideals, whiteness, race and cultural appropriation. 

• Yael Even Or

Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.

• Leo Zeilig

Jean Suret-Canale changed the face of African history for African activists, students and intellectuals.

• Chandra Frank

Many believe slavery was a "black page in history." This is a false representation of history and insulting, given the legacies of slavery are so present today.

• Gregory Mann

It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.

• Melissa Levin

South African political party, the DA, pivots its election campaign around claiming Nelson Mandela. Who came up with this?

• Thomas Blaser

German reality shows that travel to Africa have the feel of colonial era ethnographic films in how they perpetuate the image of the ‘primitive other’

• Timothy Scarnecchia

• Orlando Reade

The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

• Gregory Mann

I do know a bit about Mali, but I hardly recognize The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson’s version of it.

• Daniel Massey

The writer, an American graduate student at the time, goes in search of Nelson Mandela to tell the story of Mandela's alma mater, the University of Fort Hare.

• Harry Stopes

A review of Aimé Césaire's 'A Season in the Congo' (Une Saison au Congo) at the Young Vic theatre in London.

• Anthea Gordon

The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.

• Sarah Emily Duff

One of the most striking features of Botswana's capital city, is its malls.