• Gregory Mann

Tunisia, which kickstarted the "Arab Spring," is in a long pause between longtime dictator Ben Ali’s flight and elections scheduled for July 2011.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Political parties in South Africa have a new challenge during elections: commissioning a pop ditty people can dance to while political candidates make empty promises from stages.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Mahmood Mamdani

The umpteenth stand-off between Uganda's government and the "Walk to Work" protests by opposition forces.

• Indira Govender

In some of Cape Town's black townships, residents have to stand in line to use one of the portable chemical toilets made available to them.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.

• Kim Yi Dionne

Which is worse: Americans not knowing anything about Malawi, or that's where Madonna adopted children and wasted money?

• Elliot Ross

One of the leaders of Zimbabwe's opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.

• An Anonymous Reader

We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.

• Siddhartha Mitter

Bang, was a free jazz violinist and composer, whose music reflected on his involvement as an American conscript in the Vietnam War.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A mix of factors - language, regional, sexism, an opposition that has been co-opted by the ruling party and repression - prevents real, meaningful change in Cameroon.

• Brett Davidson

A profile of Jansen, vice chancellor of Free State University, on a leading online media outlet in South Africa, says more about the problem with liberalism in South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs