• Talya Swissa

Xenophobia after the #ParisAttacks isn’t limited to boneheads like Rupert Murdoch.

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.

• Joshua Kwesi Aikins
• Daniel Bendix

For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.

• Africa Is a Country

• Grieve Chelwa

There's little doubt that Chinese and Arab interests are procuring land in Africa, but a careful review of the evidence suggests also point to local buyers.

• Emily Baughan

Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims—both symbolically and practically.

• Thando Njovane

To what extent has South Africa and South Africans failed to address the aftermath of Apartheid, the resonances of which can be felt to this day? To what extent are we living in a post-traumatic space?

• Wangui Kimari

The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.

• Paul Bjerk

After a tough election in Tanzania, won by the ruling party, a constitutional crisis looms in Zanzibar.

• Lwandile Fikeni

• Africa Is a Country

• Dominika Koter

The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.

• Premesh Lalu

We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.

• Africa Is a Country

• Michelle Moyd

The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.

• Dikeledi Molatoli

• Pablo Medina Uribe

Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.

• Thiven Reddy

• Kim Wale

After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

"Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation" lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.