• Ari Gautier

A historical novel by Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin narrates an unusual love story between a slave and a princess.

• Abdulkader Tayob

We need to rethink how people seek sustenance and wealth, but not divorced from their moral values, convictions, and expectations.

• Franziska Fay

Amil Shivji’s latest film, 'Vuta N’Kuvute,' is a gift, not only to the people of Tanzania, Zanzibar and its diasporas, but to the world.

• Regina Guzman

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis—and why that is only half of the story.

• Stephen Corry

Western conservation NGOs condemn violence against Maasai, but also don't want herders or subsistence hunters on land they want to control and profit from.

• Leo Zeilig

In the early 1970s, Walter Rodney, expelled from Jamaica, took a post in Tanzania. In Leo Zeilig’s new book, he captures those exciting, but also difficult years and how it formed Rodney.

• Jevgeniy Bluwstein

Why are Ngorongoro's Maasai at risk of being evicted again? Tanzania's conservation-tourism industrial complex wants them out.

• Andrew Harvey

Two tourists take a package trip to visit the Hadza people in Tanzania and are so jazzed with what they see, they make a podcast about it. What could go wrong?

• Tom Menger

Gurnah’s Nobel Prize invites us to ponder Germany’s colonial past between the Scramble for Africa and the First World War in what is now Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

• Nicole Rizzuto

Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels offer a skepticism against the cultural politics of packaging African stories for global circulation and consumption.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature win raises questions about the role of the LitNobel and how they construct what we think of and buy as African literature.

• Paul Bjerk

Has the recent death of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli created new political possibilities?

• Rasna Warah

The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.

• Khalifa Said

Tanzania’s workers are at the highest risk for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Why are trade unions not taking action?

• Michaela Collord

Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.

• Rasna Warah

The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.

• Fatma Alloo

Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women's Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.

• Akua O. Britwum
• Amina Mama

How Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere’s approaches to gender politics, help reshape feminist visions for reclaiming a developmental state.

• Dastan Kweka

One corporation's tax tussle with Tanzania holds many lessons for African countries that continue to struggle with the inequitable share of proceeds from their extractive sectors.

• Jimi O. Adesina

Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.