• Patrick Litanga

Until Joseph Kabila publicly recuses himself from running for a third term, many Congolese will be suspicious of any dialogue proposed by the government.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Burkina Faso is finally beginning to do right by the memory of revuolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara.

• Chipo Dendere

• Sofia del Carril

• Grieve Chelwa

It is worth revisiting economic historian Morten Jerven's book "Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong" (2015), a refreshing contribution to the debate about development scholarship on Africa.

• Dan Magaziner

Dan Magaziner gets to shake the hand of Paul Kagame, a man many consider a dictator at best and a war criminal at worst.

• Kamissa Camara

• Anakwa Dwamena

The physical and mental health of a head of state, one assumes, is a basic requirement as to whether they can perform their job adequately. Not in some parts of Africa.

• Camilla Hawthorne
• Pina Piccolo

Italy also lacks a fully developed movement against racism led by people of color. It doesn't help that white activists prefers to racism as xenophobia.

• Todd Cleveland

With the passing of the legendary Mozambican-born Eusébio in 2014, Ronaldo is now the undisputed face of Portuguese soccer.

• Alice de Vries

Across Africa, the working poor often end up carrying the burden of raising tax revenue while the multinationals go scot-free. And women bear the brunt of it.

• Richard Pithouse

A political culture, often facilitated by social media, has emerged that many people experience as authoritarian and bullying.

• Shona Kambarami

In Zimbabwe, the leap from online conversation to citizen protest has followed the same path as other protest movements around the world.

• Todd Cleveland

Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.

• Jacquelin Kataneksza

Anti-government protests in Zimbabwe face the risk of falling into obscurity – the unfortunate and all too common destination of many such movements.

• Alice de Vries

The rowing acceptance of what critics of structural adjustment programs have been arguing for decades, (seems to have had minimal impact on the IMF's actions.

• Michael Busch

Anjan Sundaram’s Rwanda exists in an authoritarian bubble characterized by fear and repression.

• Grieve Chelwa

The short answer: The UK doesn’t have the same influence on the continent that it did decades ago. And Brexit will be further proof of that.

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.