Ugandan lawyer, poet and human rights advocate Awadifo Olga Norah on writing as ethical inquiry, the aftermath of violence, women as builders of peace – and literature’s power to preserve memory

A conversation with Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan about her latest novel, Lebanon, memory, patriarchy, migration – and why literature is stronger than a manifesto

Award-winning Ghanaian writer Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri on grief, belonging, Black imagination, literary life in Ghana, and why writing began with unfinished drawings

Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with civil society practitioner, human rights activist and co-executive director of PartnersGlobal Roselie Vasquez-Yetter

Mbizo Chirasha in conversation with Zimbabwean cultural activist, writer and performance poet Cynthia Marangwanda

Egyptian author Ahmed Abdel Moneim Ramadan on how absurdity and fantasy mirror Egypt’s social and political realities, shifts in the literary landscape, the economics of writing, and the tension between profession and art.

Halldór Laxness spent his life searching for literary and political identity. His novels on colonialism, poverty and nature now read like early voices of the Global South. An interview with his biographer Halldór Guðmundsson.

A dialogue with Mbizo Chirasha and anti-apartheid writer, pro-African poet and activist Shafā’ath-Ahmad Khān on the legacy of protest and the power of writing.

About uncomfortable truths. A conversation with North Nigerian writer and literary activist Sumaiyah Muhammad Salisu

When activism and poetry intertwine. A conversation with Megha Sood