
The most important public intellectual of the last 50 years
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
In gratitude to Stuart Hall, a socialist intellectual who taught us to confront the political with a smile.
Every side-eye, cringe, SMH and WTF in the world has gathered for a family reunion in
The 54-storey building in Johannesburg, built in the 1970s, is the tallest residential building on the continent, and subject of a new photobook.
Between 2012 and 2013, an exercise took place known as the France South Africa Season. This
The writer imagines coming out to his late mother.
The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.
Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.
The first full color photographs of the vibrant, underground jazz scene that flourished in South Africa in the 1960s.
Introducing the South African writer, K. Sello Duiker's novel 'Thirteen Cents' to US audiences.
The fact that the global novel has emerged from the world of the global literary economy does not render it "lite."
Only five African or African-born writers have been awarded the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Coetzee and Lessing.
A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.
J M Coetzee, South Africa's most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country's literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.
The film "Zulu" - starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom - are getting lukewarm reviews. Is the novel, it's based on, any good?
Namibian literature is a subject that usually draws a blank look and those deeply involved face many frustrations.
In 1988, Basquiat traveled to Cote d'Ivoire, anticipating "very unsophisticated" Africans would see his art. That's not what happened.
Who decides where African fiction begins and ends and which (African) writers fall within its ambit?
The historian Max Siollun wants to present Nigerian history as something more than a mechanical rendering of dates and facts.
A sample of Africa Is a Country editors and contributors list the books keeping them warm this winter.
The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.