• Nicholas Barber

Racism against Somali Canadians is a real problem. It is present not only on the right, but the left as well.

• Thomas Blaser

An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.

• Lolade Adewuyi

Stephen Keshi’s success as Nigeria's national men's soccer team coach, will perhaps encourage more African countries to look closer to home for coaching salvation.

• Netta Kornberg

What's wrong with the 'Africa' journalism of Aidan Hartley, a staple in rightwing UK media like 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Mail."

• Melissa Levin
• Andrea Meeson

A youth activist that came to prominence in the 1976 student uprising in South Africa has been missing since 1978.

• Benjamin Fogel

It is not often that analysts of diametrically opposed ideological tastes in South Africa agree, except about Julius Malema.

• Megan Eardley

An open letter to the New Yorker over its approving coverage of mercenary-activity-for-humanitarian-intervention, despite its record of failure in Central Africa.

• Zachary Levenson

A resort in South Africa's Free State province offers guests accommodation in "a Basotho village and a shantytown." Who comes up with this offensive stuff?

• Jonathan Duncan

Journalists are still keen to prod the soft spot of their readers' insecurities around mental illness, with the fear mongering undertone of 'it could happen to you.'

• Claudia Gastrow

How Nito Alves has become the symbol of a slowly emerging movement that has shaken the Angolan government’s narrative of post-conflict stability.

• Steffan Horowitz

For his CNN food travel show, Bourdain picks black Gauteng rather than pretend-European Cape Town and the Western Cape.

• Solome Lemma

The World Bank and IMF have waged a sustained assault on African public services over several decades, and have never been called to account for the profound and lasting damage they have done.

• Benjamin Fogel

Mmusi Maimane, despite his apparent reputation in opposition circles as a “man of the people,” appears to possess a rather limited political imagination.

• Antoinette Engel

Johannesburg: the city where criminals don’t discriminate, but property developers do.

• Zachary Rosen

As a public service, we will, every year around Halloween, share this guide on how not to embarrass yourself or offend anyone.

• Corinna Jentzsch

One mitigating factor: The Mozambican opposition movement is weak—in terms of political impact, financial resources, popular support, and military resources.

• T.O. Molefe

Jacob Zuma says out loud what most South Africans believe about themselves: South Africa isn’t in Africa. It’s somewhere else. Somewhere better.

• Benjamin Fogel

In its current form libertarianism and its worship of the market is utterly irrelevant to South Africa.

• Elliot Ross

• Imran Garda

If more than one of these apply to your media source, you're probably not getting your information from the most reliable place.