• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.

• Lily Saint

The author, a regular contributor, summarizes four new books she's been reading.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku

Kunene’s compositions don’t necessarily have a benchmark to conform to, but instead reveal the continuous state of transcendence his music takes.

• Dylan Valley

• Ryan Brown

Nat Nakasa was an ambitious journalist who had the cold fortune of being born black in 20th century South Africa.

• Orlando Reade

• Alice de Vries

White Euro-Americans are drawn to Sub Saharan Africa by an urge to explore, do good or by a more existential desire for an encounter with radical difference.

• Brett Davidson

Can North Africans define their own futures, away from the inventions of old white men in think tanks in Washington DC?

• Basia Cummings

'Dear Mandela' questions whether the history of South Africa's ruling party obscures its corruption and immoralities. And what kinds of movements it would take to challenge the ANC's power head on.

• Orlando Reade

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We asked the Africa Is a Country "office" to comment on Nando's new ad that is supposedly a comment on the widespread antiblack xenophobia in South Africa.

• Loren A Lynch

Denzel Washington's new thriller, "Safe House," plays out in Cape Town, South Africa. You mostly can't tell. That's deliberate.

• Orlando Reade

• T.J. Tallie

How does an American publication write critically about a country without running the risk of reifying sexual and racial stereotypes?

• Mohlomi Maubane

Watching a 34 year old Benni McCarthy back in South Africa with Orlando Pirates, leave many observers with a lingering feeling that he could have achieved so much more.

• Sean Henry Jacobs