• Savo Heleta

Many white South Africans are doing all they can to maintain racial inequalities and white privilege. It's a recipe for disaster. Hopefully they get it before it’s too late.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.

• Susan Thomson

Rwanda’s president has long practiced a zero-sum political game in which he and his cronies are the primary winners.

• Aida Alami

Abdul Hakeem, in his 80s has lived in Morocco for over thirty two years, where he raised a family and runs two Aikido dojos.

• Fareeda Abdulkareem

In death, Fela Kuti is being rehabilitated by Nigeria's government. It may all be a false note.

• Zachariah Mampilly

Amilcar Cabral and the liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Including another worrying thread of the American "war on terror" on the continent: the training of vigilantes. 

• Simukai Chigudu

It would be an understatement to sum it up as a tragic tale.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

There is considerably less sustained outcry on social media about African life in relation to ongoing forms of structural violence that may be more mundane but just as deadly.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country's next president.

• Abraham T. Zere

• Lion Summerbell

Few places in the world have taken a beating like South Sudan. How did it come to this?

• Patrick Bond

As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.

• Benjamin N. Lawrance

Protests against Togo's ruling family aren't unusual, but this time there's a few unusual components, including that the protesters have a clear platform of demands.

• Samson Kaunga Ndanyi

Daniel arap Moi perfected rigging and state violence as politics. Uhuru Kenyatta campaigned with them and will extend and complete them in his second term.

• Francisco Perez

Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.

• Yousef Khalil

That the recent revolutions failed to transcend political stagnation, is a product of the way neoliberalism functions as an ideology.

• Marissa Moorman

Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.

• Cláudio Silva

After an 11-year wait to vote in my own country, the whole thing took 3 minutes. One week later I'm still waiting to hear who won.