• Phindi Mnyaka

One of the few books about photography to come out of the continent and where the majority of contributors are African and work on the continent.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

A new book of essays offers a nuanced glimpse into the complexities of reporting on the Arab world, including North Africa.

• Lily Saint

The historical novel is in vogue across the continent, challenging how we conceive of the nation, and how we write its histories.

• Dzekashu MacViban

A conversation with the founding editor of Bakwa Magazine—created to amplify new writing from Cameroon and from the African diaspora.

• Shannon Morreira

Medical anthropologist Julie Livingston argues that the conditions of capitalist modernity in which we live are not sustainable and are leading to increased rather than lessened inequality.

• Nedine Moonsamy

Black Women’s poetry has been largely ignored or denigrated in the world of South African letters. They have to do it on their own.

• Rachel Douglas

C.L.R. James' book about the Haitian Revolution, had an impact far beyond the Caribbean.

• Andriata Chironda

A personal reflection, by the daughter of a fighter in Zimbabwe's Second Chiumurenga, on the death of President Robert Mugabe.

• Mia Cuoto

The celebrated Mozambican writer, Mia Cuoto, argues, among others, that it is essential that governments think in terms of the nation, not its elites.

• 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.