• Mona Hakimi

It’s not common knowledge that there is Iran in Africa and there is Africa in Iran. But there are commonplace signs of this connection.

• Yarri Kamara

Climate negotiations have repeatedly floundered on the unwillingness of rich countries, but let's hope their own increasing vulnerability instills greater solidarity.

• William Shoki

Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.

• Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?

• Khanya Mtshali

Although films like 'The Woman King' offer us a small glimpse into the past, they cannot give us the full story.

• Shimrit Lee

The author of 'Decolonize Museums' assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.

• Suad Musa

African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.

• Oludamini Ogunnaike

We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.

• Maha Marouan

African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.

• Edna Bonhomme

The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.

• Esther A. Armah

Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.

• Boima Tucker

On the last episode of our sports and music series on Africa Is a Country Radio, we visit with Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon of the Eleven Named People podcast to preview the 2022 men's World Cup football tournament.

• Thomas Lesaffre

After 29 years of neoliberal failure in South Africa, foreigners are a convenient scapegoat for a national elite that failed to redistribute wealth. This is a pattern common to post-colonial Africa.

• Sanya Osha

For philosophy to be relevant in Africa, it must democratize and address contemporary social problems.

• Moradewun Adejunmobi

We are usually more attuned to Africa’s pains than to Africa’s pleasures. What would studying African pleasures, beyond censorious judgment, look like?

• Duncan McEachern Yoon

The author’s new book wants to clear away some of the misunderstandings that dog Africa and China relations. Here, he catalogs the books that guided him.

• Julian Manyika

A new book weaves science, history, philosophy and personal narrative in a refreshing and more globally inclusive look at depression.

• Shobana Shankar

Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.

• Boima Tucker

On this month's Africa Is a Country Radio, we soundtrack traditional martial arts and combat sports across the African continent.

• P. Anyang’ Nyong’o

Africa's political liberation and economic emancipation can't be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.