• Dennis Laumann

It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.

• Gregory Mann

Hollande’s visit coincided with a vote in the UN Security Council authorizing ECOWAS intervention in Mali; something Algeria, Mali's northern neighbor, objected to.

• Benjamin Fogel

The idea that leadership is the panacea to South Africa's varied troubles, is asserted as an almost axiomatic truth amongst South Africa's monotonous punditry.

• Dan Moshenberg

Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon's repressive regime on the government's actions: "Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”

• Dan Magaziner

What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?

• Jonathan Duncan

The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.

• Donata Columbro

The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society

• T.O. Molefe

For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Corinna Jentzsch

What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?

• Benjamin Fogel

My beef with rhinos is more of a beef with white South Africa as a whole, who are all for saving rhinos but largely silent about inequality, poverty and institutional racism.

• Dennis Laumann

Here's on lesson from Ghana's 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana

• Dan Moshenberg

Euro-American media just can't do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.

• Gregory Mann

Mali's interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.

• Justin Scott

What are we to do, as consumers, if Fairtrade is little more than a marketing gimmick? Should we avoid products marked with its logo? Are we being conned?

• Jill E. Kelly

Most media reports of “political murders” in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa don't situate them in their larger historical context.

• Gregory Mann

Foreign journalists would do well to get their heads around Mali’s crisis, because all signs are that it will be around for a while.

• Dennis Laumann

Most of the same issues and personalities that featured in the 2008 elections dominate in the 2012 elections.

• Megan Eardley
• Steffan Horowitz

The United States' star mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater, protects Chinese investment around the African continent.