• Mahmood Mamdani

Samir Amin's life resembled that of Karl Marx: a man without a homeland, but one whose home was a chosen commitment to a historical project.

• Haythem Guesmi

Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.

• Melchisedek Chétima
• Scott MacEachern
• Walter van Beek

Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?

• Gabeba Baderoon

There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.

• Norbert Odero

The power of having a god who resembles us.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.

• Vik Sohonie

Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.

• Ashoka Mukpo

Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.

• Nsubuga Ssemugooma

The identities, liberal or homophobe are cultural and political. They are not a perfect mirror of the narrative of homophobia in Africa.

• Sindre Bangstad

Mbembe’s 'Critique of Black Reason' is useful for our analysis of the postcolonial present.

• Anne Pitcher

In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.

• Wahbie Long

The major problem with the term "decolonization" is its status as empty signifier, argues South African psychologist Wahbie Long.

• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Savo Heleta

The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.

• David Edwards

The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• John Stephens

The global response to a disease that largely effects the most marginalized populations of poorer countries shows a basic lack of respect for human rights on the part of international institutions.

• Duane Jethro

The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.

• Olutimehin Adegbeye

Try being a single woman in Nigeria.

• Nicholas Grant

In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.