• Zahra Moloo

Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.

• Ethel-Ruth Tawe

In honor of Pride month, we revisit the past which shows that many Africans were unapologetic about their sexuality and gender non-conformity.

• Zachary Mondesire

During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan's independence struggle.

• Tammy Wilks
• Doseline Kiguru

The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.

• Xavier Livermon

Livermon’s new book explores how South African kwaito artists, Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza, pushed against the boundaries of gender and performance in their music.

• Mwongela Kamencu

Government money, artistic freedom, and integrity in Kenya in the time of COVID-19.

• Julie MacArthur

Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.

• Elizabeth W. Giorgis

First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women's histories.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

• Kim Gurney

When the usual rules no longer hold, like in a pandemic, we might find inspiration in the collectivities and working principles of artists.

• Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi

The painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi speaks to Drew Thompson about the evolution of her practice and how she locates herself in contemporary African art.

• D.S. Battistoli

The “World Music” record industry has a lot to do with what kinds of reggae music we get to hear and consume.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.

• Cara Moyer-Duncan

Media scholar Cara Moyer-Duncan wrote a book about postapartheid South Africa. Here she gives her book picks for our #ReadingList series.

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

What it means to be a man and a feminist.

• Austin Corona

Raja Casablanca's fan clubs are well organized, politically active and occasionally violent.

• Michael de Vulpillieres

Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city's working class African immigrants.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

Jumoke Verissimo’s first novel, A Small Silence, explores the psychic afterlives of protest in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

• Tania Adam

Paranoia is my friend since, as Achille Mbembe says, “the pandemic democratizes the power to kill; now we all have the power to kill.”

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel
• Mame Fatou-Niang

What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?