• Gregory Mann

Francois Hollande want French-African relations to be transparent. Is this a new African policy or the old FrançAfrique?

• Dan Moshenberg

• Nicholas Barber

For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.

• Olufemi Terry

The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda's military.

• Davy Lane

Will the breakthrough of a Swazi jockey in British horse racing change the global stakes for Africa and its diaspora's riders?

• T.J. Tallie
• Alice de Vries

In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa - where political and economic power are at odds - what happens in gay spaces?

• Boima Tucker

The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.

• Brett Davidson

The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.

• Jumoke Verissimo

Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.

• Africa Is a Country

Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.

• Elliot Ross

By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.

• Megan Eardley
• Marissa Moorman

The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.

• Brett Davidson

In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.

• Olufemi Terry

Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.

• Serginho Roosblad

In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Africans can draw uninformed conclusions about what’s going on in their own backyards and on the continent.

• Zachary Rosen

Nicholas Kristof believes his journalism must contain a familiar entity from Western society – a white American – to make the content accessible to his readers.

• Gregory Mann

Last week’s assaults on the tombs of saints, scholars and prominent ancestors in Timbuktu punctuated a long, leaden moment in Mali's crisis.

• Elliot Ross

• Dan Moshenberg

It’s not even news that women and children leads AIDS activism in places like Botswana, except when it’s scanted. So, here’s a primer.