• John Stephens

News of a potential cure for HIV shouldn't lead us to complacency. There are 37m people in the world with HIV, nearly half who can't access treatment.

• Marame Gueye

Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson
• Stephanie J. Urdang

A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.

• Abdi Latif Ega

Every time you project terror onto Somalis, remember to ask how we live in Mogadishu.

• Maja van der Velden
• Martin Oteng-Ababio

The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called "largest electronic waste dump in the world."

• Nabil Ayouch
• Theo Zenou
• Joseph Pomp

A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.

• Hisham Aïdi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.

• Endre Dalen

Once we're done talking about its viral quality, is Toto's "Africa" a song about the continent with the same name, or a song about how millions of enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas?

• Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann

Drawing on a long history of political art and protest and to bypass old media censorship, Sudani artists go to the street and online to complement street protests.

• Sydelle Willow Smith

Sunshine Cinema is repurposing a tool of 20th century European colonial and neocolonial capitalist domination.

• Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux

How could thinking with Africa help us fulfill our humanity? And might thinking with Africa open up a possibility for world-making?

• Nikitta Dede Adjirakor

When it comes to language preferences in Ghana, indigenous languages suffer. It is a continental problem.

• Chelsea Stieber

The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.

• Lily Silumesii

Following a series of racist attacks on African students in India, an African student in India wrote this.

• Nii Kotei Nikoi

Hiplife artist Sarkodie has proposed that what Ghana needs is a dictatorship. This is not inconsistent with his politics, rooted in promoting male success and a patriarchal vision of liberation.

• Nana Prempeh

The wild metaphors, stark imagery, and boundary-pushing hyperbole in Nana Kwame Agyei-Brenyah writing.

• Bentley Brown

Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”

• Jon Fish Hodgson

The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.

• Rishi Nath

Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.

• Seun Babalola

I have the privilege to fight, argue or board a plane when I feel like I've had enough. The vast majority of women on the continent do not have that option.