• Tom Devriendt

• Prexy Nesbitt

A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela — after 27 years — was released from prison.

• Elliot Ross

Zambia is on course to be Southern African nation since Bafana Bafana in 1996 to win the African Cup of Nations.

• Dan Moshenberg

The war on women’s health in the United States is a war without borders. It also extends to attempts in Africa to legalize abortion. And the US Republican party and its auxiliaries are in front.

• Dylan Valley

Cape Town remains one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in South Africa, and there aren’t many signs of things getting better.

• Jonathan Faull

• Marissa Moorman

Rafael Marques de Morais, despite being labeled a foreign agent by the Angolan state, has always insisted that Angolans need to resolve their own problems.

• Melissa Levin

The made-upness and the shallowness of the Democratic Alliance of South Africa's vision of a non-racial future.

• Jonathan Faull

The news that J.M. Coetzee had contributed to a book entitled "Australia: Story of a Cricket Country" rankled the author, a committed Coetzeephile, slightly.

• Jonathan Faull

The politics of lists like the "Top Thirty Think Tanks in sub-Saharan Africa."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A Mexican research group has listed the world's most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. South Africa's cities finish tops.

• Boima Tucker

• Dylan Valley

• Melissa Levin

Nelson Mandela has always elicited divergent, incorrect and unrealistic reactions among his detractors and supporters.

• Tom Devriendt
• Chika Unigwe

Chika Unigwe has been at the forefront of solidarity efforts in support of the #OccupyNigeria protests. Tom Devriendt spoke to her.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

Ethiopia forcibly relocates rural populations, often at gunpoint and never with any consultation, so the land can become "more productive."

• Tom Devriendt

The latest entrant to our series where we ask photographers to talk to us about their five favorite images, is Glenna Gordon.

• Tom Devriendt

Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Before he died, most Americans had very negative views of Martin Luther King Jnr., or were ignorant about his aims. They still are.