• Emma Shercliff

Nigerian publisher: it is time the continent’s consumer class gets romance lit that is entertaining and reflect the complexity of their lives.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Pablo Medina Uribe

In "Futebol Nation," British journalist David Goldblatt explores the social and political history of Brazilian football.

• Ainehi Edoro

The writer Taiye Selasi doesn’t seem to realize there is a difference between identity as a subjective, biographical problem and identity as a legal and political reality.

• Chimaechi Allan

While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.

• Delinda Collier

Lara Pawson's book about the complex and violent events on and after the 27th of May, 1977: the date of a supposed coup d’etat in Luanda, Angola.

• Lineo Segoete
• Zachary Rosen

The story of Ba re e ne re, now probably Lesotho's premier literary festival as told by those involved from its start in tragic events.

• André Naffis-Sahely

Alessandro Spina produced one of the greatest indictments against colonialism and jingoism, as well as a tribute to the Mediterranean’s cosmopolitanism.

• Kwesi Shaddai

The Black American activist's relevance for today's generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

• Africa Is a Country

The inaugural winner of the Caine Prize for short fiction opines on the useless rivalry between Kenyans and Nigerians about who has won more Caine Prizes.

• Matt Keaney

• Rustum Kozain

James Matthews has the distinction of being one of the first Black Consciousness poets and publishers in South Africa. He is the subject of a documentary by director Shelley Barry.

• Navdeep Singh Dhillon

The struggle to Africanize folktales that have been thought of as “owned” by rigid European narratives and European aesthetic expectations.

• Kagiso Mnisi
• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Tseliso Monaheng and Kagiso Mnisi speak to the editor of an edited book about South African pop star, Brenda Fassie: "I'm Not Your Weekend Special."

• Marissa Moorman

Brenda Fassie was a woman who stepped out of line, talked out of turn, wore the pants, pulled up her skirt and loved women and men.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Lesego Rampolokeng's tribute to an old school pioneer and one of the key builders of the South African hip hop scene.

• Mahmood Mamdani

An extract from Mahmood Mamdani's seminal study, 'When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda."

• Elliot Ross

The historian Simon Stephens discovers a meme in the book covers of novels set in or with African themes.