• William Worger

Lily Saint talks with historian William Worger about the archive of sponsored comics by South Africa's Apartheid government that he is amassing at UCLA.

• Dan Moshenberg

In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.

• Simon Taylor

Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.

• Ashwin Desai

When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.

• Arvin Alaigh

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

• Philipp Schütz
• Wongel Abebe
• Nafkot Gebeyehu

Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.

• 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.

• Fareeda Abdulkareem

The feature film, 'Kasala,' feels like a documentary film about the Nigerian condition and appeals to anyone who has ever been poor.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

Manu Dibango has been here for centuries, and he ain't goin' away any time soon.

• 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.

• Ron Krabill
• Danny Hoffman

Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women's team.

• Christopher J. Lee

In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.

• George Kibala Bauer

The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.

• Ben Verghese

Free jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo comes home to his childhood home in Cape Town, carrying the spirit of his generation.

• Erin Haney
• Shravan Vidyarthi

Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.

• Grégory Pierrot

The author, French: "When the game is over in Russia, I’ll go play another at the field down the street. I’ll find a song to sing on the way."

• Emily Suzanne Lever

The 2010 World Cup was tumultuous for France; both an athletic failure and a site of social conflict. The French Football Federation doesn't want to repeat it.

• Haythem Guesmi

Fascists love Kylian Mbappé and hate Karim Benzema. Between these two lies the problem of romanticizing the French team as an African team.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

A possible French victory hovers like a thin layer of hope that barely veils the simmering anger at France’s neglect of the islands and pessimism about the future.