• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Jonathan Faull

South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema's brand of populist politics.

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For Ugandans the Americans are basically aiding a military infrastructure that will mostly terrorize local people and strengthen an unpopular dictator.

• Dan Moshenberg

If you're accused of 'terrorism' in Uganda, you end up at Luzira Prison, known for torture and its 5,000 prisoners in a place with a capacity of 500.

• Africa Is a Country

Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian philosopher, talks about coming out as gay.

• Tom Devriendt

Muammar Gaddafi relied extensively on mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa to secure his rule. It is usually assumed they're black Africans. It turns out a lot of them come from South Africa. And they're white.

• Dan Moshenberg

Women participated in all parties, and prominently so, including the party of the undecided and the party of those boycotting the election.

• Travis Ferland

Homophobia in Africa often gets discussed as a one-size-fits-all, with little room for nuance.

• Abdourahman Waberi

A mild mannered historian and anthropologist takes over as President of an autonomous Somali republic.

• Jonathan Faull

Omar al-Bashir has a bigger problem than the ICC: Ordinary citizens, including the middle classes, taking to the streets against the effects of austerity on their lives.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

Sierra Leone is a tough place for women and girls, maybe among the worst. But that doesn't mean they’re waiting for Nicholas Kristof to save them.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

Gbowee, an activist, is one of three Liberian women to jointly be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Most Western media, though, didn't do right by her.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Equatorial Guinea's longtime head of state, Teodoro Obiang, wants to buy legitimacy internationally. Will he succeed?

• Dan Moshenberg

Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.

• Dan Moshenberg