• Chambi Chachage

Chambi Chachage’s tribute to Annar Cassam, assistant to late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and a key figure in anti-colonial movements.

• Boima Tucker

Father's Day reflections for the time of COVID-19.

• L. Muthoni Wanyeki

A close friend remembers the Kenyan writer and commentator Binyavanga Wainaina (January 18, 1971 - May 21, 2019).

• Isabel Ortiz

Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) bravely stood up for social policies and the developmental state.

• Ruth Castel-Branco 

Remembering Marcelino dos Santos, founder of Frelimo and the former Vice President of the People’s Republic of Mozambique.

• Serubiri Moses

Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Carilee Osborne
• Michael Nassen Smith

Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.

• Myra Ann Houser

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.

• Derek R. Peterson

The late Mbiti is praised for indigenizing Christianity. However, his veneration of "African" tradition also served as theological justification for authoritarian rule.

• Judith Van Allen

The passing of American economist Ann Seidman has again spotlighted the impacts of committed scholarship on Africa.

• Andriata Chironda

A personal reflection, by the daughter of a fighter in Zimbabwe's Second Chiumurenga, on the death of President Robert Mugabe.

• Ruth Murambadoro

What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe's legacy?

• Noah Tsika

Africa and its peoples were central to the great Immanuel Wallerstein's intellectual development and political activism.

• Amanda Hammar

With Mugabe's death, might there be space for a new self-definition as a nation in Zimbabwe, as a broad family of nationals, with a shared national project?

• Chris Webb

All that French marketing schtick aside about "the white Zulu," Johnny Clegg was a real one.

• Matthew J. Smith

In memory of J. Michael Dash, the Caribbean thinker and literature scholar.

• Serubiri Moses

Binyavanga's fashion sensibility as well as his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact after he is gone.

• Maya Wegerif

Dedicated to the memory of the writer’s friend: the rebel and genius, Binyavanga Wainaina.