• Marius Münstermann

• Hussein Badat

• Natacha Nsabimana

Africa: helping white people who are a bit down-in-the-dumps, feel better about themselves since 1884.

• Zachary Rosen

The complexity surrounding the social and economic drivers of piracy off the Horn of Africa was lost in the media-friendly version of the story.

• Jared Sacks

Bandile is a giant of the Abahlali baseMjondolo social movement, which agitates for housing for poor, black people,

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Tom Devriendt

Why is Toto's 'Africa," a song with ridiculous lyrics, so popular with everyone? It has to be the melody and the hook.

• Steffan Horowitz

The U.S. premiere of Alain Gomis' new film "Tey (Aujourd'hui)," starring Saul Williams.

• Duane Jethro

On prime time television in South Africa, the country is often a place without a past.

• Monica Popescu

J M Coetzee, South Africa's most decorated and celebrated writer, gets the country's literary scholars and biographers, all worked up.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

The reactions to the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi makes clear the differentiation between human lives that are worthy of grief, and those that are not.

• Steffan Horowitz

Why is the great director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) making a state-sponsored biopic?

• Jared Sacks

if there is any city in South Africa most suited to be labelled the 'apartheid city', it would be Cape Town.

• Africa Is a Country

Follow these sources (a mix from the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook, including from some mainstream media sources that aren't that bad) to process the Nairobi mall terror attack.

• Aaron Leaf

The Liberian president mostly gets away with soft pedal press in the West at odds with how Liberians view her or her legacy.

• Erin MacLeod

It's understandable that Rastafari aren’t critical about Haile Selassie, but the idealization of the monarch and Ethiopia in general can prevent critical analysis.

• Herman Wasserman

South Africa's mainstream media has a blindspot: It mostly covers crime as it affects the suburbs and whites. No wonder the readers are misinformed.

• Steffan Horowitz

The negative effects of tourism, globalization, and commercialization in Zanzibar.

• Caitlin L Chandler

Meron Estefanos Meron speaks to us about her ongoing work with Eritrean refugees and migrants, many who live in Israel.

• Zachary Levenson

Next time you see billboards advertising Cape Town as the “World Design Capital," know them for what they are.