• Vishnu Bachani

Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s latest film traces his search for what is likely the first film made by a Guinean, in the process asking: how is a film culture possible when the infrastructure and institutions are lacking?

• Hans Reihling

In South Africa and elsewhere, toxic masculinity is an outcome of modern individualism rather than tradition.

• Faisal Ali

The award-winning Djiboutian author, Abdourahman Waberi, shares his reflections on writing, power and living with a disability.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

With its new edition, Penguin Classics disfigures Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera’s novel 'The House of Hunger.'

• C.S. Chiwanza

The South African bowler, Kagiso Rabada, is arguably one of the best to play test cricket, and could retire as South Africa’s highest wicket-taker if the country plays more red-ball cricket.

• Carmela Garritano

A book by writer Melissa Thackway and director Jean-Marie Teno highlights an ethical and politically engaged partnership between filmmaker and film critic.

• Steven Friedman

In South African cricket, almost three decades after white rule ended, “local talent” means “local white talent,” even if you’re the national team captain.

• Zikhona Valela

The author of 'Now You Know How Mapetla Died,' a book on the murder of a leading Black Consciousness leader, writes about her research.

• Rama Salla Dieng

Filmmaker Khady Sylla amplifies the voices of and gives visibility to the domestic workers tending to the homes of Africa’s middle classes.

• Drew Thompson

Asking whether white people should curate African art anymore, may be outdated. Instead we should ask: what is African art now and does the category matter anymore?

• Sarah K. Miles

In its first few years, the magazine 'Révolution Africaine' opened possibilities for Franco-Algerian cooperation. It was then co-opted by the state.

• Razan Idris

The notion that black people were kings in Ancient Egypt is generating a social media backlash. Understanding the racialized legacy of Egyptology can explain why.

• Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Successive Ethiopian governments have continued a 'modernizing' project that not only offers people false dreams, but actively dislocates them from the things that gave them purpose in the past.

• Line Kuppens

By looking through the lenses of Brussels’ diverse youth, 'The Porters' questions the ways Belgium fails to deal with its colonial past.

• Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga chronicles life, death, return and grief in her story collection, 'Igifu.'

• Lesley Nicole Braun

Anyone who has attempted to describe dance in writing knows how difficult it is. These books on dance on the continent and the diaspora gets close.

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

The writings of Ugandan lawyer David Mpanga are both literary and legalistic, rooted in African conceptions of storytelling and self-determination.

• Jeremy Cronin

Despite its proud history, the South African Communist Party has recently taken a backseat in South African politics. Understanding its roots helps us understand how it got here and what it will take to be rejuvenated.

• Grace Musila

The intergenerational traumas of an anti-Black world in August Wilson's Fences are only too familiar to South Africans.

• Tabara Korka Ndiaye

The Senegalese director, Safi Faye’s classic 1996 film, Mossane, is a love tragedy and a spiritual quest in Sereer land.