• Sean Henry Jacobs

Like many other African states, South Africans discharge their anger at political failings on easy scapegoats: those they deem foreigners.

• Vanessa Doble

• Achille Mbembe

Why has this country historically represented a “circle of death” for anything and anybody ‘African’?

• Africa Is a Country

Diego Maradona is arguably the greatest football player of all time. In Eduardo Galeano's prose, he becomes even greater.

• Sophie Woolley

• Chernor Bah

One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.

• Camilla Houeland

To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.

• Africa Is a Country

• Laila Rupani

• Camila Osorio Avendano

Not even the Venezuelan opposition supported Obama’s action.

• Sisonke Msimang

Is there a place where white people are more committed to faux race blindness than South Africa?

• Pablo Medina Uribe

"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.

• Ruchi Chaturvedi

• Zubeida Jaffer

Despite his negative legacy in South Africa, Van Riebeeck gets presented by some as someone locals should admire.

• Binyavanga Wainaina

"I want to go to a place . . . where we can find the names of all those who have died for Kenya since 1963." — Binyavanga Wainaina.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.

• Africa Is a Country

For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.

• Mark Weston

In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.