• Thomas Courtright

The parallels between COVID-19 and the 1910s in Kampala, when the colonial regime used a series of plagues to cut Ugandans out of the capital city.

• Matthias De Groof

On anniversary of the birthday of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Congo, we ask, "What iconography arose around him, and why is that iconography so diverse?"

• Ethel-Ruth Tawe

In honor of Pride month, we revisit the past which shows that many Africans were unapologetic about their sexuality and gender non-conformity.

• Zachary Mondesire

During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan's independence struggle.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

• Florian Bobin

In 1973, Senegalese activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop died in a Senegalese prison. His life helps reveal what revolutionary politics look like in a neocolonial state.

• Florian Bobin

Once you've exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.

• Ishmael Beah

Africans rarely re-evaluate ourselves, the basis of our knowledge and our traditions on our own terms, argues Sierra Leonean writer Ishmael Beah.

• Duncan Money
• Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa from the 1930s to the 1990s, particularly the region’s white workers and white poor and their relationship with white-ruled states.

• Claudia Castelo

How colonial Portugal, to project the idea of a multi-continental and multiracial country, initiated a drive to encourage white settlement in Angola and Mozambique.

• George Bishi

Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies—especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.

• Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

How did South Africa’s white working class—those close to the politicized black workforce—experience the reform of apartheid?

• Duncan Money

Why did white mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt not seriously resist decolonization?

• Liz Timbs

What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Christopher J. Lee

Nelson Mandela's life teaches us that being quarantined is not the end of politics, but for the regeneration of politics.

• Julia Nzimande

How partisanship distorts the construction and narration of public memory about historical events, especially the resistance against apartheid.

• Katie Kilroy-Marac

Did Frantz Fanon ask Léopold Sedar Senghor for a job in 1953? And what might have happened to postcolonial psychiatry in Senegal if Senghor had given him one?

• Derek Charles Catsam

South Africa’s Human Rights Day (originally Sharpeville Day) holds a special place in the nation’s history.