• Alice de Vries

A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.

• Caitlin L Chandler

Ethiopian photographer Michael Tsegaye doesn't want to be pigeonholed. Neither does he want his country to be. So his art actively works against that.

• Cláudio Silva

When Forbes, who used to celebrate the Dos Santos family, starts asking questions about the wealth of Angola's rulers.

• Thomas Blaser

Why does Oprah Winfrey or anyone else need a $38,000 handbag and why would someone sell her that.

• Chandra Frank

Many believe slavery was a "black page in history." This is a false representation of history and insulting, given the legacies of slavery are so present today.

• Z Pallo Jordan

Running like a blue thread through the history of South African liberalism is a readiness to defer to white prejudices that has been consistently repaid in the coin of unambiguous rejection.

• Gregory Mann

It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.

• Percy Zvomuya

Zimbabwe is its own self, its own country, not some echo chamber from which people hope to catch reverberated strains of their own discourses.

• Steffan Horowitz

The ‘premature’ launch of South Africa’s second 24-hour news television channel.

• Melissa Levin

South African political party, the DA, pivots its election campaign around claiming Nelson Mandela. Who came up with this?

• Zachary Levenson

How the U.S.'s paper of record, the New York Times, "debates" South Africa's "future."

• Jacques Enaudeau

Here's a selection of articles that go the extra mile and poke holes in the narrow frame of the "Malian crisis."

• Chris Webb

Thanks to labor groups in Sweden, a major importer of South African wine, who have recently called attention to labour abuses on farms.

• Phil Paoletta

SOS Democracy wants to raise voter turnout, educate them on their choices and hold the candidates and government accountable to voters.

• Yael Even Or

A new Israeli law orders asylum-seekers to be detained for an unlimited period without judicial oversight or criminal proceedings, even for misdemeanors like bicycle or cell-phone theft.

• Linda Stupart

• Gregory Mann

I do know a bit about Mali, but I hardly recognize The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson’s version of it.

• Daniel Massey

The writer, an American graduate student at the time, goes in search of Nelson Mandela to tell the story of Mandela's alma mater, the University of Fort Hare.

• Benjamin Fogel

In South Africa, many youth votes are up for grabs for the first time, from the generation facing 70% unemployment and with little loyalty to the ANC of their parents.

• Elliot Ross

The focus should be on white people. Why have so many of us chosen not to demonstrate?