• Marissa Jackson

The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.

• Gabeba Baderoon

People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.

• T.O. Molefe

Many middle-class black South Africans hold poor and working-class blacks in disregard if not disdain, and believe poor blacks hold themselves back.

• Indira Govender

A South African doctor working for MSF writes about her experience working in the Ebola zone in Sierra Leone.

• Elnathan John

Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.

• Dennis Laumann

A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.

• Jean Allman

A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.

• Ibrahim Abdullah

Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.

• Greer Valley

Legacies of colonialism and apartheid are etched into social dynamics of the town in the way its inhabitants occupy public space. The same goes for the university.

• Sarah Ladipo Manyika

in places like Lagos where the healthcare system is inadequate and health workers constantly on strike, people rely on prayer.

• Mahmood Mamdani

An extract from Mahmood Mamdani's seminal study, 'When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda."

• Duane Jethro

The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.

• Indira Govender

The brochures about the town left out the reality for Stellenbosch's black residents: poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

• Ed Pavlić

In 1986, one year before he passed away, James Baldwin announced a radical idea: “White History Week.” In this post, Ed Pavlic writes about how Baldwin got to that moment.

• Binyavanga Wainaina

The writer imagines coming out to his late mother.

• Farzanah Badsha

For the author, watching memorials for Mandela, South Africans have lost their ability to generate theater, the theater of the mass event.

• Sarah Emily Duff

We must not forget the everyday lived realities and struggles in vanished neighborhoods.

• Sean Christie
• David Southwood

A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Summer 2012.

• Sean Christie
• David Southwood

A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways—Winter 2012.