• Marissa Moorman

Angola spends millions of dollars to host the World Championships in roller hockey (yes). Anyone who think it is a waste of money gets beaten up.

• Jared Sacks

if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.

• Africa Is a Country

Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren't that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.

• Aaron Leaf

The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.

• Erin MacLeod

It's understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.

• Herman Wasserman

South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.

• Mary Goodhart

• Nicole Gerber

There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there's an election he exploits ethnic divisions.

• T.O. Molefe

The grumblings of dissatisfaction and anger among black readers over stories about deserving blacks in South Africa.

• Zachary Levenson

Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.

• Imran Garda

The move comes in light of recent confusion over who owns Mandela’s legacy.

• Camila Osorio Avendano

Interview with Ben Cousins, founder of PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape, and who has researched land reform since 1989.

• Imran Garda

Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.

• Zachary Levenson

How did leftist political scientist Adam Habib end up as a South African version of Thomas Friedman?

• Bree Zuckerman
• Michael Busch

To understand why Tsvangirai's MDC can't win in Zimbabwe, it is helpful to move beyond the standard analysis of systemic electoral corruption and an unfair vote.

• Elliot Ross

• Zachary Levenson

Township "Living," white people and the limits of "empathy"

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

These are the days when corporate America can tell U.S. workers to stop complaining. They too would be part of the 1% if only they lived in Haiti, or Kenya or Uganda.

• Aaron Leaf

Liberian journalists are measured against the ideals of Albert Porte, a muckraking mid-20th century reporter. These days they're doing him proud.

• Yael Even Or

Fantasizing about transferring refugees to third countries, has long been a project of the Israeli state and its policy makers.