• Dawson McCall

The successes of elite Kenyan athletes should not distract from the ways ordinary Kenyans are using it to make meaning for themselves.

• Welcome Mandla Lishivha

Telling one's story as a black queer person isn't yet the luxury it is chalked out to be, especially when it remains dangerous to be queer in the world.

• Alex White

A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.

• Christine Mungai

One cannot fully appreciate Kenya’s normative Christianity and its particular obsession with public piety without appreciating the legacy of the East African revival.

• Faeeza Ballim

What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?

• Ray Bush

Post-Colonialisms Today provides an antidote to Western-centric analysis of Africa in a special issue of 'Africa Development.'

• Maher Mezahi

Africa Is a Country is proud to introduce a new podcast focused on the politics and cultural relevance of football on the African continent.

• Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s directorial debut is not only a love story about two star-crossed individuals, but about the whimsical landscapes of the place where they fall in love.

• Mohammed Jameel Abdulla

The tragedy of settler-colonialism.

• Vishnu Bachani

New films from Mila Turajlić salvages footage from the Yugoslavian news archives to tell a story of non-aligned internationalism against Cold War bipolarity.

• Kebotlhale Motseothata

How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.

• Joeva Rock

We often hear from Western donors that Africa suffers from food ‘scarcity.’ The real problem is the exploitation of African land, labor, and knowledge.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?

• William Shoki

This week on the Africa Is a Country podcast, we discuss the politics and spectacle of African football with Maher Mezahi.

• Vincent Bevins

The last decade saw the most protests in human history. But how is it that so many uprisings led to the opposite of what they asked for?

• Keith Mundangepfupfu

Although visibility is important, contemporary queer African literature reveals how easily representation privileges narratives of the resourceful and upwardly mobile.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Frustrated by most of his contemporaries, but supported by like-minded friends, Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera forever changed our notion of what African literature is.

• Raphael Kariuki

How a new underground club in Nairobi offers Kenyans respite from the harshness of everyday life.

• Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse

In her new biography of South African writer Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell shows how the publishing industry historically excluded Black women, and how they wrote in spite of that.

• Lilly Havstad

Nigerian and South Sudanese filmmakers give voice to the search for identity, stability, and belonging through the lens of youth and migration.