• Brett Davidson

Zoo City is set in an alternate Johannesburg, where criminals or those who have serious moral failings, get landed with an animal familiar as a permanent attachment.

• Megan Eardley

Why are certain kinds of war stories embraced by critics and go on to find an international audience, while other finely written stories do not?

• Alain Mabanckou

The presence of black people in France spans the last three centuries.

• Abdourahman Waberi

The birth of a promising publication, WARSCAPES. Let’s support and wish them long life.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Here's a list of writings to read for those looking for a speed-read on recent events and to understand the longue duree of how Malawi got here.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Abdourahman Waberi

At least 3 African writers are favorites for the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. They'd be the 5th African winner.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Islam first came to North America with slavery, yet no major studio film has centered on the life of a Muslim American slave. Ibn Said's remarkable life could be a start.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The mainstream is waking to the prescience of the old man's ideas.

• Caitlin L Chandler

In "One Day I Will Write About This Place," Wainaina wants to create a life uniquely his own.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

"As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs