• Anne Pitcher

Few works sufficiently recognize the truly transnational character of the eugenics movement, and how colonial Africa served as the launching pad for it.

• Grieve Chelwa

It is worth revisiting economic historian Morten Jerven's book "Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong" (2015), a refreshing contribution to the debate about development scholarship on Africa.

• Herman Wasserman

Journalism on and about the continent tends to veer between the extremes of neglect or stereotype on the one end, and touristic exoticism on the other.

• Michael Busch

Anjan Sundaram’s Rwanda exists in an authoritarian bubble characterized by fear and repression.

• Nick Turse

• Christabelle Peters

African travelers, it would seem, must still justify their movements across the planet (whether the motives be professional, economic or political).

• Erin MacLeod

The 21 April 1966 visit by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica casts a big spell over the appeal of Ethiopia to Rasta and how Ethiopians perceive Rasta in turn.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

There is not a single journal devoted to literary criticism in an African language or any writer residencies that encourage writing in African languages.

• Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

No, Albert Einstein never said this on Facebook: “Having an okro mouth does not mean you will be given banku to go with it.”

• 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."