• Alice de Vries

Zwarte Piet is just more evidence of how the Dutch majority silences and denies racist realities, especially that of black people there.

• Sisonke Msimang

This and other lessons from the South African front lines.

• Sakhela Buhlungu

The split within South Africa's largest trade union federation, COSATU.

• Tom Victor

• Sean Henry Jacobs

When President Michael Sata died, Western media ignored his political legacy and fixated on acting president Guy Scott’s whiteness treating him like a novelty rather than analyzing Zambia.

• Boima Tucker

• Corinna Jentzsch

An interview with political scientist Domingos Manuel de Rosário, of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, about the October 2014 elections.

• Brad Cibane

• Zachary Levenson

Rather than the endpoint of the post-apartheid urban crisis, deficient delivery reproduces it anew, accentuating discontent in the process.

• Siddhartha Mitter

The post-coup power struggle is between factions of the military with very different interests and goals.

• Gregory Mann

And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."

• Janette Yarwood

Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?

• Busisiwe Deyi

Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.

• Gregory Mann

Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?

• Boima Tucker

Many Brazilian voters are so disillusioned with politics that in this traditionally left-leaning, post-right military dictatorship society, the right has made surprising gains in this election.

• Laura Miti

Zambia - the country its young people fondly call “Zed” - turns 50 in 2014. It was part of the first wave of African countries to gain independence in the 1960s.

• Oumar Ba

Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He's always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.

• Sisonke Msimang

While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.

• Beza Tesfaye

It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.

• Corinna Jentzsch

The general trend has been to make immigration more difficult, rather than improving the conditions for asylum seekers and refugees.