• Ena Jansen

How black South African authors have written about domestic workers. There's a rich archive there.

• Ena Jansen

An excerpt from a new book published by Wits University Press that explores how domestic workers are depicted in South African historiography and literature.

• Peter Cole

What happens when ike's, a legendary bookstore in Durban, South Africa, creates a literary festival? For one, synergy.

• Alexander Dawson

The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.

• Mona Kareem

Racist, anti-black stereotypes persist in Arabic literature. It reveals a racial anxiety and othering of Africa among celebrated Arab authors.

• Zahra Moloo

Judi Rever's account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath challenges the official narrative.

• Ọláolúwa Òní

Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson
• Stephanie J. Urdang

A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.

• Nana Prempeh

The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.

• Rishi Nath

Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.

• Carli Coetzee

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

• Maïmouna Jallow

When we as Africans tell our own stories, we re-write the stories in the history books that our children are still taught in schools.

• Emmanuel Iduma

An interview with author Emmanuel Iduma on traveling through twenty African cities.

• Anneke Rautenbach

Edward Said once said of the usefulness of exile for intellectual work: it involves adopting “a spirit of opposition, rather than accommodation.” James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang took it to heart.

• Benjamin Talton

There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa's history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.

• Omolade Adunbi

Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.

• Ainehi Edoro

A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.

• Christopher J. Lee

'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.