• Africa Is a Country

This statement, signed by a group of African bloggers, including this site, was published a month after Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Katu's murder.

• Marissa Moorman

Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Dylan Valley talks his film revisiting violent events of September 2010 when Cape Town municipal police waged war on poor black residents of rich, white Hout Bay.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Anni Lyngskaer

Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?

• Sonja Sugira

As the dominant narrative about Paul Kagame began to change, some Western journalists failed to catch up. They get mad when that's pointed out.

• Brett Davidson

Why the deafening silence from African artists and musicians following the murder of gay activist David Kato?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

The pernicious belief, is founded on ignorance and prejudice, that certain women, including those with HIV, have no right to have children.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Johnny Issel, who has died at age 68, was a prominent activist for leftist social movements in 1980s South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Senegalese-American R&B singer, Akon, imagines himself some kind of African political leader and regularly opines on comparisons between African countries and the US. We wished he didn't.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs