• Elliot Ross

• Njabulo Ngidi

South Africa's Bafana Bafana, the hosts, has to make it out of the group stage of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for this tournament to be deemed a success.

• Benjamin Talton

Historian Jemima Pierre argues that Whiteness serves as a reference point for Ghanaians’ notions of beauty, Blackness, and power, but Ghanaians remain blind to this.

• Jimmy Kainja

John Chilembwe is Malawi's first great anti-colonial hero. Why do our media outlets mainly rely on Wikipedia to give us “facts” about him?

• Elliot Ross

• Nicholas Barber

The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.

• Gregory Mann

This is not a neo-colonial offensive. The argument that it is might be comfortable and familiar, but it is bogus and ill-informed.

• Elliot Ross

If the image of the starving black child has been deemed obsolete, then so has the Western “we” that claimed so much power for itself in the late 1980s.

• Dennis Laumann

It's 2012 and FW de Klerk still thinks Apartheid had been beneficial to its black victims. Yet global media treats him like an analyst on South African politics.

• Gregory Mann

Hollande’s visit coincided with a vote in the UN Security Council authorizing ECOWAS intervention in Mali; something Algeria, Mali's northern neighbor, objected to.

• Benjamin Fogel

The idea that leadership is the panacea to South Africa's varied troubles, is asserted as an almost axiomatic truth amongst South Africa's monotonous punditry.

• Dan Moshenberg

Alice Nkom, the brave, activist lawyer, harassed and imprisoned by Cameroon's repressive regime on the government's actions: "Threats like these show us that the fight must continue.”

• Dan Magaziner

What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?

• Jonathan Duncan

The diagnostic parameters need to be completely overhauled as they embody a Western mode of understanding which itself is culturally bound.

• Donata Columbro

The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society

• T.O. Molefe

For South African news media to be ignored is a fate worse than censorship.

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Corinna Jentzsch

What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?

• Benjamin Fogel

My beef with rhinos is more of a beef with white South Africa as a whole, who are all for saving rhinos but largely silent about inequality, poverty and institutional racism.