• 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.

• Thuto Thipe
• Dan Magaziner

The fearlessness with which South African students confront their society's contradictions, suggests much more than fees may fall.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Camilo Ucrós

Real regional integration would mean both the end of trade barriers and the local subsidies that distort trade flows and prevent competition.

• Vito Laterza

Demands for racial justice and concerns about economic inequality are coming together in a powerful call for change that cannot be ignored or easily dismissed.

• Omolade Adunbi

• Chelsea Haith

• Grieve Chelwa

Bizarrely, for all the attention paid Piketty’s visit to South Africa, we've learned very little about what he actually said. So, what did he tell his hosts?

• Caitlin L Chandler

“What is the difference between refugees and ‘normal’ citizens besides the fact that the former had to flee from their homes? There is none.”

• Leo Zeilig

Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”

• Marissa Moorman

if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola's state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands.