• Elliot Ross

China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Liduduma'lingani Mqombothi

"Miners Shot Down," by director Rehad Desai, is a haunting and emotional documentary of the Marikana massacre in August 2012.

• Mara Kardas-Nelson

Culturally and geographically separated from mainland Kenya, Lamu offers a rare window into the past and the woes and wonders of modern development.

• Jared Sacks

White South Africans come together to vote as a bloc for only two political parties: the Democratic Alliance and Freedom Front Plus.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans moved to Ghana and redefined their relationships to citizenship in the U.S. and their African identities.

• Beza Tesfaye

In Ethiopia the façade of legalism has become an indispensable gloss on political repression.

• Sinthujan Varatharajah

• Benjamin Fogel

South Africa's media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.

Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.

• Cheta Nwanze

American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.

• Antoinette Engel

This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.

• Cheta Nwanze

For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.

• Katarina Hedrén

Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.

• Karen Jeynes

For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.

• Cheta Nwanze

Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.

• Beza Tesfaye

In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world.

• Marissa Moorman
• Anne Pitcher

The bottom line of politics in electoral democracies in 21st century capitalism: Whatever patronage politicians dispense, there’s no free lunch.