• Carl LeVan

Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.

• Brenna Haragan

The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens's football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti's US's supported dictatorship.

• Noah Remnick

John Coltrane was a prophet of global black power who musically and metaphorically broke down barriers constraining the lives and imaginations of black people worldwide.

• Marissa Moorman

 . . . or the constant deferral of reconciliation

• Camila Osorio Avendano

The US is re-upping its failed "war on drugs" in Central America. The spin is they will fight "violence and poverty." This won't end well.

• Clapperton Mavhunga

If you studied history in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, you could not avoid the influence of Terence Ranger, especially in making sense of nationalism.

• Mohammed Omar

Watchiing the African Cup of Nations before the era of internet streams and mass football broadcasting in North America.

• Tomás Ayuso

• Daniel Bendix

The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.

• Abdul Musa

• C. Max Kendall

• Kara Moskowitz
• Fernando Esquivel-Suárez

• Oumar Ba

A decade after the ICC opened its investigation in northern Uganda, it lays its hands on a suspect in that conflict: a former child soldier.

• Elias Munshya

• Corinna Jentzsch

Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.

• Shireen Ahmed

Football officials are supposed to be advocates for the beautiful game and for footballers - irrespective of gender. But the treatment of female players with regard to gender testing is deplorable.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Elliot Ross

We've teamed up with brand new soccer kit supplier AMS (like them on Facebook) to give you the chance to win a Sierra Leone or South Sudan kit.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipster's Don't Dance's Top 10 UK-based Afrobeats Tunes of 2014.

• Oumar Ba

The trials and tribulations of Cote d'Ivoire's former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.