• Zachary Rosen

Somali-American novelist Ega speaks about creating complex characters, the relationship of images to creative writing and the state of African literature today.

• Dan Magaziner

Historian Carina Ray on her book that explores the history of interracial intimacy in the Gold Coast and Ghana.

• Leo Zeilig

• Africa Is a Country

A small corrective to the tide of Big Media book lists that champion a small and predictable group of authors who together give at best a limited Eurocentric view of our world.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Lesotho writers and creators' growing awareness that they are part of a global society and just trying to claim their place as agents in this world that they live in.

• Adam Branch

Revisiting the Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, "Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism."

• Oumar Ba

How can international advocacy movements be self-reflective and accountable to the people on whose behalf they speak?

• Fiston Mwanza Mujila

A Congolese writer whose work oscillates between gripping dystopia and humanist celebration.

• Abraham T. Zere

• Ishtiyaq Shukri

Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.

• Harry Stopes

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."

• Ainehi Edoro

The futuristic Lagos of Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel, 'Lagoon.'

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

A review of American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me"

• Zachary Rosen

• Efe Igor

A new book highlights African innovation, challenging dominant perceptions of the continent.

• Shobana Shankar

In the work of the novelist, Okey Ndibe, the influences of the United States, especially that everything is available for a price, is everywhere in Nigeria.

• Nikita Bernardi

The writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the Kenyan government’s habit of inhibiting the country’s talents.

• Wayétu Moore

• Alec Miran

The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.

• Marissa Moorman

Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.