• Boima Tucker

• Themba Moses Msimang

Do White South Africans constitute a tribe and if so, are they guilty of tribalism?

• Suchitra Vijayan

Under Modi, Africa will not just be a continent where India expands its economic footprint, but also builds, protects and projects its power.

• Chandra Frank

Responding to criticism of a Dutch blackface Christmas character, supporters come up with a dumb plan.

• Africa Is a Country

• Suchitra Vijayan

For the first time in 25 years, India will be governed by a single party with no real opposition.

• Chandra Frank
• Mieke Weismann

The hype around 'mixed race' families ignore that it is not a new phenomenon, but been a central part of Dutch colonial history.

• Dylan Valley

• Alex Kane

Shmuley Boteach promotes the Rwandan dictator in the US Jewish community and to other Americans as a friend of Israel, Boteach's other foreign cause.

• Elliot Ross

A very short introduction to Peter Mutharika, Malawi's new President.

• 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.