• Tiffany Mugo

The Hub of Loving Action in Africa (HOLAA), promotes conversations about African experiences with sex and sexuality.

• Ruth Bush

Rama Salla Dieng talks with a British literature scholar on literary activism in French.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?

• P. Wenzel Geissler
• Ruth J. Prince

COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.

• Nombuso Mathibela

From exile, bassist and composer, Johnny Mbizo Dyani (1945-1986), explored and promoted the folk music traditions of South Africa.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

There is a disconcerting resemblance between how some Senegalese talk about homosexuality and how they discuss COVID-19.

• Joe Kobuthi

The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famineof biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food hasnever just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Foodis identity.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Ronnie Close

The author of a book on football and revolution in Egypt gives us a list of must reads on football in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Shahenda Suliman

Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.

• Dionne Searcey

The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times' Bureau Chief for West Africa.

• Michelle Chikaonda

Coronavirus will force all of us to grapple with a new sense of mortality.

• Michael Armitage

The painter talks about how the distance between Nairobi and London allows him to take on topics at the heart of Kenya’s body politic.

• Katie Kilroy-Marac

Did Frantz Fanon ask Léopold Sedar Senghor for a job in 1953? And what might have happened to postcolonial psychiatry in Senegal if Senghor had given him one?

• Deborah Leter

Imagining a utopian, unified African federation not divided by colonial era borders or neocolonial interventions.

• T.J. Tallie

Among the books historian Tallie has on his reading list is one about the food of the American Old South — “ . . .  a forgotten Little Africa but nobody speaks of it that way.”

• Prasad Bidaye

The evolution of techno, from within Detroit’s African-American community to Kampala, Uganda.