• Michael Nassen Smith

Any deviation from economic orthodoxy in South Africa is made coterminous with the most extreme cases, like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

• James Kilgore

Kenya's prisons are in serious need of reform. Opening the door to private interests is not the solution.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

The Biya regime's grip on power has been exposed more than ever before. It is revolting to watch.

• Ewout Frankema
• Marlous van Waijenburg

African demographic growth is expected to continue unabated over the next century. How should poverty reduction be addressed on the continent?

• Andy Stafford

In 1968, France witnessed an extraordinary student uprising which changed politics. Morocco and Senegal did too, but we seldom talk about it.

• Zachariah Mampilly

Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.

• Jacquelin Kataneksza

Fasting and prayer don't determine election results; and two, social media has profoundly changed the political landscape.

• Joeva Rock

The time is ripe to ask not "does aid work," but "how does aid work?"

• Alex Park

Pith helmets and jodhpurs aside, Melania Trump went to four African countries to promote her "Be Best" education initiative. What's that about?

• Nicholas Grant

In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.

• Justin Pearce

Sixteen years after the end of the Angolan civil war, the Angolan state considers how to properly remember and memorialize the leader of UNITA.

• Russell Grinker

How can South Africa's biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?

• Reinhart Kößler
• Henning Melber

What will it take to get Germany to own up fully to the atrocities it committed during the Genocide in Namibia?

• Daivi Rodima-Taylor
• Zadi Zokou

The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.

• Sarah Katz-Lavigne
• Dr. Jana Hönke

Policymakers need to properly assess the risks to ordinary Congolese people from expanding the “conflict minerals” category.

• Michael Bueckert

South Africa's white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.

• David Edwards

The planned global Education Outcomes Fund — the UN seems onboard — would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”

• Cristiano Lanzano

The use of Marxist-inspired arguments, often distorted, to support racist or nationalist political positions, is known as "rossobrunismo" (red-brownism) in Italy.

• Keri Lambert

Nkrumah's government was driven by large scale state development projects. They have a mixed legacy. Can Ghanaians  “redeem” the fruits of his development visions?

• Olivia Woldemikael

Bobi Wine, building off political protest of the last decade, has become a symbol for a new politics in Uganda.