• Xavier Livermon

Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.

• Elizabeth W. Giorgis

First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women's histories.

• Marta Tveit

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

• Cara Moyer-Duncan

Media scholar Cara Moyer-Duncan wrote a book about postapartheid South Africa. Here she gives her book picks for our #ReadingList series.

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

What it means to be a man and a feminist.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

Jumoke Verissimo’s first novel, A Small Silence, explores the psychic afterlives of protest in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

• Jeanne-Marie Jackson

How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?

• L. Muthoni Wanyeki

A close friend remembers the Kenyan writer and commentator Binyavanga Wainaina (January 18, 1971 - May 21, 2019).

• Ruth Bush

Rama Salla Dieng talks with a British literature scholar on literary activism in French.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Ronnie Close

The author of a book on football and revolution in Egypt gives us a list of must reads on football in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Dionne Searcey

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times' Bureau Chief for West Africa.

• Deborah Leter

Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.

• T.J. Tallie

Among the books historian Tallie has on his reading list is one about the food of the American Old South — “ . . .  a forgotten Little Africa but nobody speaks of it that way.”

• Jill E. Kelly

The historian of South Africa on books she is reading for a new project on women and anti-apartheid activities in 1950s rural KwaZulu-Natal.

• Benjamin Talton

The writer, a historian, on scholarly texts, novels, and memoirs that he consulted in writing a political biography of US congressman Mickey Leland and his solidarity politics in Africa.

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Athambile Masola

Remembering Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem 'Africa: My Native Land,' first published in 1913, the same year the white government stripped black South Africans of their land.

• Peter James Hudson

The writer, a historian of capitalism, white supremacy, and US imperialism, on four books he has been reading.

• Ainehi Edoro

English Professor and Editor of Brittle Paper, recommends five books she’s been reading.