• Sean Henry Jacobs

When President Michael Sata died, Western media ignored his political legacy and fixated on acting president Guy Scott’s whiteness treating him like a novelty rather than analyzing Zambia.

• Jeffrey Gettleman

• Sisonke Msimang

While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.

• Beza Tesfaye

It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

I am afraid of Ebola because it is an enemy of critical and balanced thinking about Africa, about disease, about our common humanity.

• Corinna Jentzsch

Why is it so difficult to understand when we Africans say that it’s offensive?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

That story about Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B singer, performing in an air bubble to thousands of screaming Congolese in Goma, because he doesn't want to get Ebola is false

• Nosarieme Garrick

• Boima Tucker

• Ashoka Mukpo

The idea that this has been a crisis only of the country’s health care systems is wrong. This has also been a crisis of governance.

• Matt Keaney

• Chris Taylor

To repeat: The Economist magazine has had a "Slavery Problem" since 1843.

• Benjamin Fogel

And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?

• Africa Is a Country

• Alice de Vries

Biased media reporting won’t advance popular and professional understandings on how psychiatric conditions interact social and economic sources of stress.

• Africa Is a Country

• Marta Tveit

The 'Baba Jukwa' Facebook page exposes state and ruling party corruption and correctly predicts leadership battles in Zimbabwe. Who is behind it?

• Ed Pavlić

When it comes to Israel and Palestine, for Americans, it doesn’t matter if the careful phrases contradict the most basic facts.

• Nosarieme Garrick

• Africa Is a Country