• 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.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

Binyavanga Wainaina was a writer who not only produced seminal work, but also contributed to and shaped the African literary tradition into what it is today.

• David M. Gordon

Remembering Joe Miller, a historian of eastern Angola and central Africa, who died at 79 on 12 March 2019.

• Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
• Maria Dyveke Styve
• Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

The authors of an upcoming edited book to revisit Samr Amir's legacy in economics, write about what they wanted to achieve.

• Bentley Brown

Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”

• Serubiri Moses

Bisi Silva's constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.

• 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.

• Kelebogile Zvobgo

Eddison Zvobgo was both implicated in and a critic of Mugabe's rule. He paid for it. His niece remembers him.