• Africa Is a Country

• Siddhartha Mitter

On the usefulness of WikiLeaks and the self-destructive personality of its founder, Julian Assange.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In Cote d'Ivoire, expect a coalition government where the loser remains president and the winner as prime minister.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Black American writer, James Baldwin, draws parallels between oppression in South Africa, Algeria and the United States.

• Brett Davidson

Young Kenyans are not cynical, detached brand obsessed hedonists and want to take a personal stake in the affairs of the country.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Omar Al Bashir has long been the focus of Save Darfur and the Enough Project. But how many of those targeted by their campaigns, could recognize Sudan's president.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

Uganda's President, in power since 1986, has tried to appeal to the country's youth by rapping. Is it any good?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

James Scott: "the majority of article publishing [in academia] is . . . put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles."

• Tom Devriendt

if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Jonathan Faull

The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town is one of South Africa's great moral leaders.

• Sonja Sugira

The United Nations just made public a report about human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997.

• Sonja Sugira

Bono and Ali Hewson, his wife, wants to revitalize apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa by manufacturing the clothes from their brand in China and Peru.

• Brett Davidson

How transparent are African governments about how and where they spend tax money?

• Suren Pillay

From nationalism, we have passed to chauvinism, and finally to racism. Why are South Africa's middle classes not mobilizing against xenophobia.

• Brett Davidson

Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.

• Siddhartha Mitter

Côte d'Ivoire is turning 50 — it became independent on August 7, 1960 — and my Ivorian friend doesn't feel eager to celebrate.

• Allison Swank

Anyone who knows anything about Cold War politics, knows the CIA had a hand in Lumumba's murder. The only difference now is that it's been proven.