• Litheko Modisane

The legend of Nelson Mandela was built years before his lengthy jail sentence catapulted him to global fame.

• Ayantu Ayana

Western media coverage of Ethiopia’s political crisis turns a blind eye to the grassroots movement behind the protests.

• George Kibala Bauer

The "Africa needs help" vs. "No! Africa can teach you lessons!" is tiring. Other than benefiting a few pundits, are we deriving any value from it?

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Sam Broadway

Is western media’s mostly individualized focus on the Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine helpful to his movement?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Live TV broadcasts of political rallies, funerals and press conferences, may be more decisive than social media in shaping mass debate in South Africa.

• Abdou Rahim Lema

13 years after Binyavanga Wainaina's satirical essay, many "experts" on Africa continue to fail to comprehend the need for African voices in stories about the continent.

• Sam Broadway

If Rwandan support for the RPF and Kagame is so universal and genuine, why the murder, frequent arrest, torture and imprisonment of opposition politicians and investigative journalists?

• Abraham T. Zere

• Jamie Hitchen

Seeking to interrogate unhelpful media (and official) narratives that permeate everyday discourse and obscure the truth about these terrorist organizations is important.

• Tom Heinemann

• Anakwa Dwamena

The physical and mental health of a head of state, one assumes, is a basic requirement as to whether they can perform their job adequately. Not in some parts of Africa.

• Ian Coss

For the current generation of Uganda's diaspora, the homeland is much more than a myth; it’s a reality that they can see, hear, engage, and influence.

• Clive Gabay

When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela

• Pablo Medina Uribe

A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.

• Ashoka Mukpo

Making sure we give credit where it’s due to those on the frontline during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

• Sindre Bangstad

There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.

• Mark Kaigwa

• Andrew Hernann

Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.

• Sabelo Mkhabela

It’s very difficult for Spaza (hip hop done mostly in Xhosa) and Afrikaans hip hop to organically co-exist.