• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Michael Nassen Smith

Any deviation from economic orthodoxy in South Africa is made coterminous with the most extreme cases, like Zimbabwe and Venezuela.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.

• Sindre Bangstad

On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.

• Keren Weitzberg

What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?

• Heike Becker

There's no agreement, but the vibrant discussions and interventions by African scholars give much hope that something new is fermenting in African Studies. 

• Ben Gardner
• Ron Krabill

Undoing neocolonial power relations that benefit US higher education institutions at the expense of their, mostly global south, “partners.”

• Ryan M. Nefdt

We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent's universities.

• 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.

• Richard Pithouse

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

• Alex Lichtenstein

Martin Legassick (1940-2016) was key to revisionist tradition among South African historians that made connections between apartheid and post-war capitalism.

• Blair Rutherford

Sam Moyo, who died in a car accident on 22 November 2015, was a leading authority on Zimbabwean agrarian, land, and environmental issues.

• Mahmood Mamdani

• Premesh Lalu

We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.

• Mathilde Monpetit

The “Sankara Generation,” the young people taking on Burkina Faso's dictator, wants radical change. Does it include a better future for the country's women?

• 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.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

• Brittany Meché

The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics 'Come Back Africa,' late-1980s 'Mapantsula' and Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'

• Jon Soske

The striking minority of black contributors in South African historiography is a scandal more than a decade after the end of apartheid.