• 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.

• Martijn Kleppe

Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

To my ear Achebe’s voice is always measured even at its most defiant.

• Cheta Nwanze

Comparisons between Chinua Achebe and Nigeria's other great writer, Wole Soyinka, will increase, now Achebe has passed.

• Gregory Mann

France's intervention never offered a real solution to any of Mali's problems, but created a set of problems to the ones this country would otherwise have faced.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Alex Lichtenstein

Public history about Afrikaners in South Africa is disingenous and predictabiy don't want to deal with history.

• Dan Moshenberg