• 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.

• Orlando Reade

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.

• Nii Ayikwei Parkes

A former student of Kofi Awoonor remembers the famed Ghanaian writer who was killed in a terror attack by Al Shabaab in Niairobi, Kenya.

• Ato Quayson

The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.

• Wills Glasspiegel

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

• 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.

• Tom Devriendt

• Lara N. Dotson-Renta

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

• Orlando Reade

The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany's arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.

• Tom Devriendt

When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs

The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”

• Sean Jacobs