• Megan Eardley

A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola's authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.

• Dan Moshenberg

Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.

• Gregory Mann

Malians have little patience for Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, deposed in a coup on 22 March.

• Mikko Kapanen

• Orlando Reade

Britain's secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.

• Mats Utas

A comment on the enigmatic, and ambivalent, presence of rebel leader and former president, Charles Taylor, ten years after he left Liberia.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Gregory Mann

Both of the front-runners, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist François Hollande, have run against FrançAfrique. Easier said than done.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Elliot Ross

Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for "his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa."

• Marissa Moorman

When the Financial Times commits an entire article to topics Angolan, it fills my Google news alert for a week.

• Gregory Mann

We mean the kind of bad that comes from being caught in a Beckettian loop of either saying nothing at all or having nothing to say.

• Gregory Mann

The rebels--that is, the MNLA and their disavowed and dangerous allies--hold Mali hostage.

• Bukola Afolayan

Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.

• Bukola Afolayan

Military takeovers are happening so quickly and so fast in Africa, and instapundits need back facts. We are here to help. Here are some basic facts about Guinea-Bissau, site of the latest coup d'etat.

• Gregory Mann

A sense of how the Malian diaspora experiences the political tensions and instability back home.

• Orlando Reade

Jim Naughtom's images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Bukola Afolayan

God is the fastest-growing business in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. It may be time we agitate for our governments to raise taxes on these corporations.

• Tom Devriendt

• David Styan