• Boima Tucker

A deep dive into the African-influenced music scene of the Colombian Caribbean coast.

• Sean Jacobs

An interview with the South African director and writer of 'Five Fingers for Marseilles,' a Western set in that country, and starring an all black cast.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

The Nile Hotel Incident chronicles a brutal murder and cover-up, framed against the backdrop of the outbreak of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

• Abraham T. Zere

• Moses E. Ochonu

Their decision to wear "western clothes" in public, spark debate on modernity and morality in Northern Nigeria.

• Tsitsi Ella Jaji

In praise of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile, who became South Africa's national poet laureate in 2006.

• Boima Tucker

A deeper look at the contemporary Cuban Hip Hop scene with Luna Olavarria Gallegos, one of the producers of the Afro Razones project.

• Ernest Harsch

Sankara’s enduring popularity rests not only on his words, however much they resonate with today’s disenchanted and angry youth. It is also based on his deeds.

• Ewout van den Berg

Even in spite of a recent history of reactionary backlash, the movement against #ZwartePiet (Black Pete) has had some success.

• Ndeye Debo Seck

For many young Africans, going abroad is seen as the only solution to help their parents struggling to make ends meet.

• Naledi Yaziyo

Much of black youth culture in South Africa celebrates constant self-invention, and is built on the gospel of entrepreneurship.

• Jacqueline Traoré

Nigerien band Anewal eschews explicit politics and sings mostly of harmony and brotherhood.

• Zoé Samudzi

Blackness, like the nation of Haiti herself, is a thing to be punished for committing the crime of daring to exist and resist.

• Akin Adesokan

On the arrest and detention of Cameroonian writer and scholar, Patrice Nganang.

• Grace Musila

Interview with Fred Khumalo, author of a novel about the sinking of the SS Mendi, a warship carrying hundreds of black South African soldiers.

• António Tomás

The glut of books on Fanon serve as a guide for reading him through the challenges of our present. But they also reveal the extent to which reading Fanon today is not such a straightforward operation.

• Sean Jacobs
• Wendy Willems

Ten post-independence, pre-coup struggle songs that critiqued ZANU-PF under Mugabe and imagined a leadership change and different political culture.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's perturbing review of Maya Jasanoff's travelogue of going up the Congo River as she's accompanied by Joseph Conrad's novel, 'Heart of Darkness."

• Melusi Nkomo

In the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, his rule was anything but admirable.  

• Anakwa Dwamena

Interview with Emmanuel Iduma, co-founder of Saraba magazine.