• Ashoka Mukpo

Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The links between knowing history, media and political agency in northern Ghana.

• Nsubuga Ssemugooma

The identities, liberal or homophobe are cultural and political. They are not a perfect mirror of the narrative of homophobia in Africa.

• Kenichi Serino

Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.

• Omolade Adunbi

Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.

• Anne Pitcher

In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.

• Kristin Otto

Among the Ga people of Ghana, there's more to a coffin and the rituals of death than meets the western eye.

• Joeva Rock

Why agricultural change is political change. Take the case of farmers in Burkina Faso.

• Wahbie Long

The major problem with the term "decolonization" is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.

• Ainehi Edoro

A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.

• Lawil Karama

A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.

• Lamin Fofana

An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.

• Boima Tucker

A border crossing mix of Afrobeats and Zouk and an interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic music producer, Lamin Fofana.

• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Harri Englund

In Malawi, artists, especially poets—usually associated with progressivism and intellectualism—are the vanguard of a new homophobia.

• Caitlin L Chandler

"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for—it's really its own country."

• Vanessa von Gliszczynski
• Julia Friedel

The curators of the Weltkulturen museum of ethnography in Frankfurt, Germany trace the origins of objects that ended up in their collections, and ask if they were: COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?

• Boima Tucker

Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.

• Wangui Kimari

Invisible City [Kakuma], a film about Kenya's largest refugee camps, seems keen on making a point but is anchored on unsteady ground (with some shitty translation).

• Christopher J. Lee

'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.