• 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.

• 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.