• Henning Melber

Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.

• Athambile Masola

Remembering Adelaide Tantsi Dube’s poem 'Africa: My Native Land,' first published in 1913, the same year the white government stripped black South Africans of their land.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• Myra Ann Houser

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.

• Judith Van Allen

The passing of American economist Ann Seidman has again spotlighted the impacts of committed scholarship on Africa.

• Siphokazi Mbolo
• Ashley Nyiko Mabasa

The question of who belongs in South Africa, stains any project that aims to build a more equal and inclusive society.

• Reinhart Kößler

Restitution and the responsibility of addressing Europe's colonial legacy - in this case Namibia - via artifacts left behind.

• Rasmus Bitsch
• Kelly-Eve Koopman

South African activist Dulcie September would have turned 84 today had she not been assassinated in March 1988. The podcast series They Killed Dulcie revisits the murder and her legacy.

• Monique Bedasse
• Erin MacLeod
• Nijah Cunningham
• Matthew J. Smith
• Jesse Benjamin

On the 50th anniversary of Walter Rodney's The Groundings With My Brothers, a small group of scholars on the impacts of Rodney on their intellectual development and political commitments.

• Naledi Yaziyo

Some of the mythologies about Nelson Mandela don't line up with actual histories.

• Marika Sherwood

The author on why she felt compelled to write another book on Nkrumah. This time on Western powers smearing Nkrumah as a Communist.

• Thomas Blaser

The German metal band Rammstein's video for 'Auslander' wants it both ways: a critique of colonialism and sex tourism, but right-wing neo-nazis can also enjoy the fascist iconography.

• Haythem Guesmi

Fanon is your revolutionary's revolutionary. His life and work continue to inspire and empower a new generation of dreamers and fighters.

• Chérif Keïta

A long awaited recognition comes for the two American founders of social work in South Africa.

• Richard Vokes
• Derek R. Peterson
• Edgar Taylor
• Nelson Abiti

A trove of unprinted photographs and other media from the Idi Amin years in Uganda is now available for public view giving us insight to the concerns of the regime and realities of living under his rule.

• Lauren Brown

Boris Johnson is in the running for UK Prime Ministers. The UK Conservative Party is particularly fond of Britian's colonial past, but Johnson usually outdoes himself in this regard.

• Jennifer Hart

Jerry Rawlings is widely cited by working class people as one of Ghana's best presidents. But his legacy is complicated by his association with political violence as a military dictator, and by his ushering in of neoliberalism.

• Sisonke Msimang

There is a lively, angry, often chaotic debate about the role and place of the father of the South African nation.

• Pedro Monaville

Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?

• Hisham Aïdi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.