The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian political theorist and historian about what drives African autocrats like Paul Biya
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/ 21 October 2011
Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel, <em>She-Devil in the Mirror, </em>is a matrix of murder and decadence, into which romance and drugs are thrown.
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> has no interest in rugby or rugby shirts, clothing designed for superhumans built like wardrobes.
Chris Abani is part of this year’s Poetry Africa tour.
Recently ‘Discovered’ in the West, Teju Cole was already known elsewhere.
For four decades Thomas Mapfumo has been
at the heart of the evolution of a music style
that put Zimbabwean sounds on the map.
A few weeks ago, stunned and angered by the 8-2 Manchester United mauling of Arsenal, I wondered what an American Marxist would think.
<i>The First Grader</i> is based on the true story of a former Mau Mau fighter and villager, who first went to primary school when he was 84 years old
The countries Burundi-born artist Serge Alain Nitegeka has called home are easily more than your average African has visited.
Life as an exile in Europe is illuminated through
the eyes of artist Dumile Feni’s daughter, who never met her father.