The rise and fall of biennials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and South Africa

Imagination, football and the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe

The controversial history of the $28-million African Renaissance Monument in Dakar

The odd couple: agitprop and the griot tradition

The brick as metaphor in South African art and writing

The life and death of public monuments

What a skatepark in Uganda symbolizes about African urbanity

The emotive language used to describe art-world narratives

Contemporary African artists respond to prejudice and homophobia

Being an artist in Africa means constantly dealing with officialdom, ennui and endless waiting

Amar Kanwar’s multilayered films and installations prompt ‘revelations, of different kinds, for different individuals’

Begonias, the lure of travel, endless writing and an unfinished book

Photography, Africa, dystopian fantasies and ‘the present as a screen’