• 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.

• Jonathon Repinecz

Homosexuality continues to be a dangerous topic in Senegal. There, as in much of the African continent, heteronormative behavior is enforced with violence.

• Rishi Nath

Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears.

• Ruben Andersson

An interview with Ruben Andersson on his book Illegality Inc, an ethnographic account of Europe’s efforts to halt irregular migration along Spain's borders with Africa.

• Herman Wasserman

The pain caused by the South African Apartheid government has been widely recorded. But we may not have heard the half of it.

• William Worger

Lily Saint talks with historian William Worger about the archive of sponsored comics by South Africa's Apartheid government that he is amassing at UCLA.

• Christopher J. Lee

In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.

• Lindsey Green-Simms
• Brenna Munro

Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we're witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.

• Zain R Mian

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: colonial and neocolonial rule cannot survive without the work that prisons perform.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, "The Poets."

• Lina Benabdallah

In the 1970s, Algiers served as refuge to African Americans who confronted US racism with force and had to flee the country. Some Panthers hijacked planes.

• Flavio Rizzo

New Warscapes volume explores travels and lives of migrants and refugees beyond mainstream portrayals.

• Sisonke Msimang

The Jacob Zuma years were especially damaging for re-introducing South Africans to political leaders who did not fear shame.

• António Tomás

The glut of books on Fanon serve as a guide for reading him through the challenges of our present. But they also reveal the extent to which reading Fanon today is not such a straightforward operation.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's perturbing review of Maya Jasanoff's travelogue of going up the Congo River as she's accompanied by Joseph Conrad's novel, 'Heart of Darkness."

• Lucien van der Walt
• Peter Cole

A new history of a radical union that profoundly impacted Southern African politics.

• Shaista Amod
• Tim Fish Hodgson

The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.

• Lily Saint

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel, 'Americanah,' was the 2017 choice for the “One Book, One New York” campaign. Is the campaign necessarily a good thing?

• Dan Magaziner

How does it differ from straight-forward history? What are the limits and possibilities of the genre? 

• Sisonke Msimang

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