• Reinhart Kößler

Namibia taking Germany to court in a country with its own history of genocide against indigenous peoples, hoping they may honor the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.

• Leonor Faber-Jonker

Land, landlessness and the German genocide of Namibians at the turn of the 20th century.

• Caitlin L Chandler

EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”

• Leslie James

In the 1930s fascism’s face was immediately recognizable in colonial Africa. It was neither a foreign concept nor an external threat in Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)

• Aubrey Bloomfield

Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara.

• Leila Dee Dougan

The policing of black hair often begins at a very young age, in the most subtle and intimate spaces, long before you get to school.

• Chris Bolsmann

Next time 'Die Stem' part of the South African anthem plays, the appropriate reaction is to sit down or take a knee.

• Richard Pithouse

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

• Todd Cleveland

Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.

• Camilo Ucrós

The location of 18th colonial ship ship and its expensive cargo renews tensions between Spain and Colombia revives unfinished business between Spain and its former colonies.

• Frank Gerits

How to make sense of the Paris attacks within the international history of the 20th and 21th century, especially France's history of colonialism.

• Harry Stopes

The Algerian novelist, Kamel Daoud, gives a name and a history to Albert Camus's "The Stranger."

• Wangui Kimari

Kenyans choose to forget that the Kenya Land and Freedom army (also known as Mau Mau) did not fight for a monument. They fought for land.

• Olivia Walton
• William H. Smith

The Rhodes Must Fall movement is starting a much-needed conversation about the institutional roots of racism at universities in the West. Hopefully that conversation will lead to solutions.

• Tawanda Moyo

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

• Camilo Ucrós

On Otavalo, the largest outdoor indigenous market in South America.

• Danielle Bowler

Slavery, despite its centrality to South Africa's founding, remains on the periphery of popular and institutional memory there.

• Oscar Rickett

Western Sahara is the only non-self-governing territory on the African continent awaiting decolonization.

• Chandra Frank

Responding to criticism of a Dutch blackface Christmas character, supporters come up with a dumb plan.