• Solen Feyissa

The photographic record of an academic conference which key question was "How is technology rooted in a longer history of African experiences?"

• Chris Webb

Aside from the heady enthusiasm of campus politics, is there any variable that unites these seemingly disparate campus struggles and what can they learn from one another?

• Leila Dee Dougan

Watch: South Africa's 'born frees' gag on the rainbow nation pill they've been fed for the past 21 years.

• Sisonke Msimang

In South Africa, the old is alive and well and surging alongside everything that is trying to be new.

• Alice de Vries

One critical problem of the new combined agenda of agencies like the UN or World Bank is that their goals lack a clear rationale on what they'll accomplish and how.

• Boima Tucker

• Janette Yarwood

Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Latin America is a Country

• Elliot Ross

In Britain in 2015, racism is being used to dismantle the consensus on the welfare state, and to undo the greatest achievement of British democracy.

• Frank Gerits

• Alice de Vries

South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.

• Fion de Vletter

President Filipe Nyusi's government will be more remembered for preventing protests by an increasingly disenfranchised Mozambican public.

• Marissa Moorman

How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.

• Anne Pitcher

What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We don't think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.

• Charles Fogelman
• John Aerni-Flessner

• Oumar Ba

For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.

• Wanlov The Kubolor

Most Ghanaians think "obroni" means "white person" or "foreigner", but it stems from the Akan phrase "abro nipa" meaning "wicked person."

• Boima Tucker

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.