• Elnathan John

Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Chimaechi Allan

While visiting relatives in Nigeria, I found a children’s bookshop in Lagos with no African children or African languages in their books. That day changed everything.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Herman Wasserman

What role should media play in the midst of controversial cultural expressions, like songs that address racist violence by white farmers against their workers in South Africa?

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Leila Dee Dougan

Rejecting how African products are marketed to Westerners.

• Dylan Valley

A Cape Town hip hop group causes a huge stir with its music video "Larney Jou Poes" (roughly translated: Boss, your cunt.) depicting an uprising by farmworkers.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Janette Yarwood

The youthful and creative art scene in Senegal's capital is the subject of director Sandra Krampelhuber’s documentary film, "100% Dakar."

• Dennis Laumann

A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.

• Jean Allman

A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.

• Ibrahim Abdullah

Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The fact that the choices for black people under Apartheid were either martyrdom or compromise was part of the injustice of that system.

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

• Boima Tucker

• Katarina Hedrén

The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.

• Greer Valley

Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.

• Katarina Hedrén