• Boima Tucker

• Blair Rutherford

Sam Moyo, who died in a car accident on 22 November 2015, was a leading authority on Zimbabwean agrarian, land, and environmental issues.

• Frank Gerits

How to make sense of the Paris attacks within the international history of the 20th and 21th century, especially France's history of colonialism.

• Clive Gabay

When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela

• Mahmood Mamdani

• Lina Benabdallah

One of the main challenge for the continent remain: there is a lack of consensus in terms of African strategies towards India, the US, or China.

• Adam Warwinsky

The appeal of living off the grid, in a small, hippy bubble on the tip of Africa is what drew the author to Scarborough in Cape Town but the reality - especially the casual racism - drives him away.

• Adam Bahar

• Adam Bahar

As immigrants, refugees and citizens, we must fight together to stop the rampant racism created and sustained by the government and their policies of forced isolation.

• Julian Cola

How accusations that a visiting African-American professor was denied entry to a high end hotel, present an opportunity to address racism in Brazil.

• Sebatalatsi

African political elites will continue to use the spoils of "development" and aid to serve their personal interests.

• 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.