• Jill E. Kelly

The legacies of Apartheid's death squads and the South African Truth and Reconcilation Commission.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Marissa Moorman

We ought to ask questions about Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. But also about the history of Chevron, Exxon, and Conoco in the country.

• Justin Scott

A post that takes a warm, nostalgic trip through an aspect of West Africa's rich musical heritage: Nigerian highlife.

• Donata Columbro

That what a Dutch writer Adriaan Van Dis told an Italian newspaper when asked about what South Africa is like now.

• Youssef Benlamlih

Morocco appears stable, but high unemployment, economic reforms, increased repression and police brutality, could still impact the country's politics. 

• Steffan Horowitz

Moses Molelekwa, the brilliant South African pianist, composer and producer died by suicide on 13 February 2001. Florence Mtoba, his wife (also his manager) was found with him; she had been strangled.

• Marissa Moorman

MediaStorm went to Angola to make a short film about de-mining. Their techniques gave us pause.

• Gregory Mann

Salafist fighters burn hundreds of rare manuscripts, some unique and centuries old, before leaving Timbuktu to French paratroopers.

• Gregory Mann

Would former US Assistant Secretary for Africa, Susan Rice, have been a good choice for Barack Obama's Secretary of State?

• Jimmy Kainja

John Chilembwe is Malawi's first great anti-colonial hero. Why do our media outlets mainly rely on Wikipedia to give us “facts” about him?

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Aaron Kohn

This website thinks it can combine ideas about Africa with shopping. Sean Jacobs interviewed one of the founders of African Lookbook, Aaron Kohn.

• Elliot Ross

• Marissa Moorman

In post-socialist, growth-oriented Angola, the rich are getting richer and the poor have only their faith.

• Gregory Mann

Hollande’s visit coincided with a vote in the UN Security Council authorizing ECOWAS intervention in Mali; something Algeria, Mali's northern neighbor, objected to.

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

• Corinna Jentzsch

What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism—and for whom?

• Dennis Laumann

Here's on lesson from Ghana's 2012 election: Not only is Akufo-Addo the Ghanaian Mitt Romney, but the NPP are the Republicans of Ghana

• Gregory Mann

Mali's interim Prime Minister is forced out by soldiers. What that means for Mali’s political future is anyone’s guess, but it doesn’t look good.

• Simone Bertuzzi