• A.C. Fick

J.M. Coetzee wondered in the late 1980s what price white South Africans are willing to pay for fraternity with Black South Africans.

• Safia Aidid

The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.

• Jacinda Townsend

The agency was the "most dedicated and influential critic" of black writers, with agents writing detailed analyses of authors they were spying on.

• Grieve Chelwa

By studying the actions of his British South Africa Company (BSAC) in present day Zambia, starting about 1890, the answer is an emphatic: No.

• Duane Jethro

One of the most scandalous statistics at the University of Cape Town: only 3% of academic staff are black, and only two full professors are black in the faculty of Humanities.

• Oumar Ba

Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, is emblematic of how Abdoulaye Wade's family made the state their personal property.

• Ebenezer Obadare

A conscious effort must be made - mustering Nigeria's considerable human capital at home and in the diaspora- to build alternative structures of political engagement.

• Tawanda Moyo

Protests are important because they raise awareness. Awareness leads to dialogue. And dialogue may lead to lasting solutions.

• Africa Is a Country

• Adam Bahar

A migrant's fight for a place in Germany.

• Africa Is a Country

An open letter addressed to Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of the American TV news program, 60 Minutes, over its reporting of Africa and Africans.

• Greer Valley

Statues of icons of colonialism continue to exist in their visibly unaltered state throughout South Africa’s major cities.

• Marissa Moorman

This is now our eleventh piece on Nicholas Kristof. This needs to end. He has to stop somehow.

• Solen Feyissa

The photographic record of an academic conference which key question was "How is technology rooted in a longer history of African experiences?"

• Chris Webb

Aside from the heady enthusiasm of campus politics, is there any variable that unites these seemingly disparate campus struggles and what can they learn from one another?

• Leila Dee Dougan

Watch: South Africa's 'born frees' gag on the rainbow nation pill they've been fed for the past 21 years.

• Sisonke Msimang

In South Africa, the old is alive and well and surging alongside everything that is trying to be new.

• Alice de Vries

One critical problem of the new combined agenda of agencies like the UN or World Bank is that their goals lack a clear rationale on what they'll accomplish and how.

• Boima Tucker

• Janette Yarwood

Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.