• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Elliot Ross

Pulitzer awarded Gettleman $10,000 for "his vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa."

• Marissa Moorman

When the Financial Times commits an entire article to topics Angolan, it fills my Google news alert for a week.

• Gregory Mann

The rebels--that is, the MNLA and their disavowed and dangerous allies--hold Mali hostage.

• Bukola Afolayan

Madame Faye Sall is the first woman of Senegalese birth and ancestry to become First Lady of Senegal. Some women in Senegal hope it will affect the debate about women and power there.

• Bukola Afolayan

Military takeovers are happening so quickly and so fast in Africa, and instapundits need back facts. We are here to help. Here are some basic facts about Guinea-Bissau, site of the latest coup d'etat.

• Gregory Mann

A sense of how the Malian diaspora experiences the political tensions and instability back home.

• Orlando Reade

Jim Naughtom's images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.

• Bukola Afolayan

God is the fastest-growing business in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. It may be time we agitate for our governments to raise taxes on these corporations.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One of our readers took our title literally.

• Tom Devriendt

• Bukola Afolayan

One of the key groups that engineered the ousting of Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade - he wanted to change the constitution to stay in power - was a youthful grassroots social movement group founded by a collective of rappers.

• Tom Devriendt

When it comes to engaging with French language opinions and writings in English, it’s a desert out there.

• Gregory Mann

Is the adoption of a new constitution by Mali's military regime a starting point for getting the soldiers back under civilian rule? Let’s game this out a little bit.

• Tom Devriendt

• Elliot Ross

Nigeria's very unpopular finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose last name in local slang is made to sound like trouble, wants to be World Bank President. She's the "African Renaissance" candidate. What do Nigerians make of it all?

• Gregory Mann

A few things are worth saying about the mutiny and the coup that rocked Bamako over the last few days.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs