I wasn’t allowed to enter Grace’s room when she was not at home, so I had to make haste.

The author on accessibility, black desire, and holding space for complex histories.

Pieter Hugo's latest portrait series examines the quiet afterlives of apartheid and genocide.

Cape Town is blessed in the beauty pageant of luxury tourism. Hotels, swimming pools, golf courses, and gated playgrounds proliferate to pamper the wealthy. No bounty from the seductions of one of the world’s most vibrant, pluralistic cities is shared with the low-waged who make this wealth.

The Future of Cities: The journalist and She Shapes the City co-founder on the women behind Nairobi’s rapidly changing identity.

The director of Eclipsed on bringing the first all-female production to Broadway.

Notes from a school in Senegal

Twenty-two years later, in this era of social media, how do we mourn the Rwandan genocide?

Future of Language: We wanted to make Kenya our literary base from which to engage with the world.

What happens to Africa’s child soldiers when the war is over?

An Unnatural Pursuit.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 is essentially an unfinished metal structure.

Apartheid, Germans, and genocide in Namibia

Boundaries of Nations: The director on depicting the African migrant experience in Italy, moving in with his film’s lead, and the “common language” of pop music.

He led her away, down one tunnel, then another. He took her through a passage where the bones were piled so high they had to wriggle over them on their bellies.

Boundaries of Nature: Each time my friend reaches for his resin, he taps into a global knowledge honed over millennia, a true people’s pharmacopeia.

The documentarian on white savior narratives, making enemies of gunrunners and governments, and nonfiction film as art.

Is domestication a final hope for the world’s rhinos?

Inspired by Eduardo Galeano, the discovery that all wars—personal, territorial, political—have afterlives in our grief and memory.

Flash Fiction: But you're a lesbian, aren't you? You become the person in his head.

Boundaries of Gender: This time around, Mama Paulina would marry a woman. She was not looking for a sexual relationship, but for a wife who would provide her with sons.

In Orania, South Africa’s last remaining white-only town, the country’s history of racial segregation and white supremacy lives on.

The author couldn’t find a single press in the world devoted to publishing African poetry. So he created one.

Are some acts so revolting that the people who commit them do not deserve a hearing?

I had felt him in my blood vessels, for he had come to live in me and I had begun to smell like him, and with his eyes...

A Libyan-American returns to make sense of the country after Gadhafi’s fall.

The discovery of a massive coal basin in Mozambique has kicked up a frenzy of investment, but this steroidal economy comes with a cost.

They are just everywhere, walking, rushing, running, toyi-toying, fists and machetes and knives and sticks and all sorts of weapons and the flags of the country in the air, Budapest quivering with the sound of their blazing voices: Kill the Boer, the farmer, the khiwa.

He takes her hand, careful to keep his eyes away from her dominant breasts, her full pouty lips, and they begin in the living room.

Calls for a Western intervention in northern Mali, now being called “Africa’s Afghanistan,” rely on logical fallacies and ignore recent history.

Making music in war-torn Eastern Congo

Secret wars, secret bases, and the Pentagon’s “new spice route” in Africa.

Photos of empty performance spaces in Lagos capture the spirit of Fela Kuti's famous nightclub and strip back the chaos of one of the world's busiest cities.

Jabati Mambu, a Sierra Leonean severely wounded in the civil war, watches as the Hague hands down a war crimes verdict.

Mai Iskander, director of Words of Witness, talks with Ela Bittencourt about the reporting/activism dilemma, Egypt’s disappeared, and the rule of law under Morsi.

Obama's "new" Africa policy prioritizes security over democracy. But the continent is changing rapidly, and U.S. policy needs to adapt--here's why.

Photographer Julien Chatelin’s images capture Egypt’s surreal and absurd rural landscape; a road that leads to nowhere.

A year after the Arab Spring, Egyptian voters must choose between a Mubarak minister and a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. How did we get from Tahrir Square to here?

Egypt's presidential election is a tremendous opportunity for the Egyptian people, but does not come without risks.

South Africa's Pieter Hugo on negotiating representations of Africa, the searing controversy surrounding his work, Nick Cave, and his friend the late Tim Hetherington.

Can Liberia's celebrated president win the trust of her people?

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

The famous documentary photographer on the importance of Nigerians archiving their own history.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on branding, charity, and class in Nigeria's schools.

For over 30 years, we gave Egypt the shaft, because it was in our national interest to do so. Now it’s time for Egypt to find out where its own interests are, without a strongman leading the way. The country has a difficult and terrible road to walk.