• Africa Is a Country

• Africa Is a Country

Here's a list of white dictators, including real world ones, who were either African or operated on the continent.

• Premesh Lalu

Mandela’s significance can be understood through his ability to concede that the concept of the post-apartheid could not be entrusted to messianism or figureheads.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.

• Chandra Frank

Discovering that history lessons are best learned when you look up whilst walking through the small streets of the Netherlands' commercial capital.

• Duane Jethro

What it means to belong in post-apartheid urban space and how to reckon with history.

• Marissa Moorman

Why the ruling MPLA wants to control how we remember the murder of dissidents killed right after independence.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Jimmy Kainja

As Malawians blur the lines of their past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand the country's present.

• Tom Devriendt

• Jon Soske

A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.

• Harry Stopes

When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.

• Elliot Ross

After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.

• Kathleen Bomani

Bi Kidude, who died on April 17, 2013, was probably Tanzania's foremost singer and performer of Taarab music.

• Justin Scott

Nigeria's ruling class, when faced with criticism, always go for censorship, to silence their critics.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.

• Elliot Ross

Madonna's attempt to save face after her scolding by Malawi's president to rehash the stereotype of the corrupt African leader rings hollow, and a bit desperate. Malawi's President wasn't having it.

• Gregory Mann

The French news magazine, Courrier International, did a special issue: "Afrique 3.0." We had a closer look. Is it any good?

• Serginho Roosblad

What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?

• Chandra Frank

The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.