• Olufemi Terry

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

• Emily Wood

This online exhibition provides an overview of the transit of East Africans into Diaspora communities within the Indian Ocean world, and their various settlements among Arabic, Indian, Persian and Asian communities.

• Bukola Afolayan

Plays, operas, children's events, participatory performances by audiences, and even some “open society” speeches lit up the Tunisian capital in defiance of religious extremists.

• Orlando Reade

• T.J. Tallie

How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

The positive media surrounding ‘Cape Town as a gay paradise’ obscures far more complex realities.

• Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann

For our series, "My favorite photographs," we asked Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann about her favorites.

• Elliot Ross

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We don’t know why the South African photographer decided to apply to become "coloured" under Apartheid's racial classification laws.

• Tom Devriendt

• Steffan Horowitz

Globetrotter's organizing logic may be a bit elusive, but the content itself is often quite captivating.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Images of Ethiopia by Indian photographer Mahesh Shantaram

• Andrea Stultiens

In which category would the South African photographer Pieter Hugo place himself? What do they stand for or what his photographs can and cannot tell.

• Olufemi Terry

The city's past and its predilections render neat formulations like Creole city and European city equally hollow.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One of our readers took our title literally.

• Marissa Moorman

Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Orlando Reade

The artist recognized early on that his sexuality constituted an obstacle between himself and his Nigerian background.