• Scott Remer

American liberals’ continued refusal to engage seriously with the global collapse of the postwar liberal order.

• Andreana Prichard

The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.

• Sindre Bangstad

On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.

• Christopher J. Lee

White supremacy always relies on an international interdependence as Trump's support for white extremists in South Africa shows.

• Savo Heleta

All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.

• Max Ajl

The Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin's contributions to historical social science—and revolutionary theory—span an almost mind-boggling breadth.

• Arvin Alaigh

The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.

• Peter Cole

Former US Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who passed away recently, played a leading role in the global fight against South African Apartheid in the 1980s.

• Zahra Moloo

The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

Everyone but the Chibok girls--subjects of #BringBackOurGirls--and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.

• Rene Lemarchand

It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.

• Sisonke Msimang

For decades, Big Men in different forms have had their day in Africa, and have forced us to celebrate "Africa Day" every year. It's time for a change.

• Issa Shivji

History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.

• Ashwin Desai

On Mother's Day — a dedication to hardscrabble mothers.

• Dotun Ayobade

There is very little self-made about Nigeria's young, rich and glamorous like oil magnate Paddy Adenuga and DJ Cuppy.

• Dani Madrid-Morales

China is developing a media footprint in Africa, via providing digital TV services and a global news channel.

• Chuma Asuzu
• Seyram Avle

How to change the erroneous perception of Africa as technology backwater. Go look, for example, at what the "Maker Movement" is doing in Ghana and Nigeria.

• William G. Moseley

A deeply colonial institution, with a shameful history, struggles to reinvent itself.

• Naledi Yaziyo

I had told many half-truths before, but those little lies were cute compared to this, the first time I told a big lie.