• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Lesego Rampolokeng's tribute to an old school pioneer and one of the key builders of the South African hip hop scene.

• Chandra Frank

The writer on Frank’s Archive, based on her father's records, that explores the different functions of books, power and knowledge.

• Lily Saint

Robert Mugabe and how how quickly style and showmanship can sweep away an audience, even when the underlying message promotes violence and jingoistic triumphalism.

• Achille Mbembe

What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.

• Tom Devriendt

if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”