• Benjamin Fogel

South Africa's media, already lacking any serious labor reporting, have no interest in fairly reporting the strike by mine workers.

Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.

• Cheta Nwanze

American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.

• Antoinette Engel

This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.

• Cheta Nwanze

For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.

• Katarina Hedrén

Erykah Badu’s online defense of her visit to autocratic Swaziland exposed her lack of knowledge about the continent.

• Karen Jeynes

For the love of Woolworths, stop pretending like you and only you know what Nelson Mandela would have wanted.

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Admit you didn't expect the Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF, a breakaway from the ANC, to do so well in South Africa's latest elections.

• Cheta Nwanze

Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.

• Beza Tesfaye

In the past decade, more journalists have fled Ethiopia than any other country in the world.

• Marissa Moorman
• Anne Pitcher

The bottom line of politics in electoral democracies in 21st century capitalism: Whatever patronage politicians dispense, there’s no free lunch.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Justin Sylvester

Twenty years after 1994, there is the deep discontent among the population about electoral politics and of politics in general. Freedom turned out to be a mirage.

• Africa Is a Country

The sensational tale of Rwanda’s gospel-singer-terrorist, Kizito Mihigo.

• T.O. Molefe

Being Black in South Africa today must be a baffling, sometimes humiliating experience.

• GroundUp

The AIDS activist Zackie Achmat reflects on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections in this interview with Cape Town independent media outlet, GroundUp.

• Janette Yarwood

Senegalese president, Macky Sall, is so unpopular that the PDS party of Abdoulaye Wade and Y’en a Marre - sworn enemies - agree on things.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Jeremy Weate

Nigeria's homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.