• Elliot Ross

• Jumoke Verissimo

Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.

• Thomas Blaser

Former UN envoy Jean Ziegler on Third World hunger: "We Let Them Starve."

• Wills Glasspiegel

The Nigerian poet and critic, Odia Ofeimun, on how Nollywood depicts traditional culture and religion.

• Bukola Afolayan

The photographer Aida Muluneh's work explores Ethiopia via identity, personal journey, and family nostalgia after a 30-year absence.

• Siddhartha Mitter

A review of a new memoir by Ghana's new President, John Dramani Mahama.

• Tom Devriendt

• Yewande Omotoso

A South African writer gets invited to the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. Her main takeaway: writing is an act of faith; an ancient form of prayer.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Jumoke Verissimo

Makoko, in Lagos, with over 100, 000 residents, is viewed as a shantytown. There’s more to it. This is the destruction of a community.

• Lily Saint

The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she's been reading.

• Megan Eardley

We’ve scoured the web to bring you the best and worst romance, adventure, intrigue, and kinky fantasies Africa has to offer.

• Jonathan Duncan

Writing on depression in Africa is a rarity, so Binyavanga Wainaina's book, "One Day I Will Write About This Place," seems singular.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.

• Dylan Valley

Reading Yewande Omotoso's novel "Bom Boy," just when you think you’ve figured the characters out, the author opens them up a little more, and our perceptions change.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Jogchum Vrielink

Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.

• Lara N. Dotson-Renta

Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.

• Brett Davidson

Interview with South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes's about her novel, "Nineveh."