• Zachariah Mampilly

Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.

• Debbie Onuoha

A new film by Aiwan Obinyan explores the origins and "ownership" of a now-famous cloth.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.

• Aminu Dramani

What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.

• Norbert Odero

The power of having a god who resembles us.

• Sisonke Msimang

A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic.

• Aurore Iradukunda

"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."

• Joy Shan

Events at South Africa's oldest agricultural college become an object lesson in how mastery over language upholds mastery over land.

• Katarina Hedrén

Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.

• María Ximena Plaza

The actress Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico, who wanted to claim her Oscar win. But why should she owe the Oscar to Mexico, a country with such high levels of racism?

• María Ximena Plaza

Colombians and outsiders continue to associate Afro-Colombians largely with dance or music. This is a problem.

• Mikko Kapanen

Hip hop artists from Stockholm and Helsinki team up; also repping their ancestral lands of Congo and The Gambia.

• Sean Henry Jacobs