• Khanya Mtshali

Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?

• Paul S. Landau

Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.

• Nancy Dantas

In the 1980s, the South African arts collective Vakalisa Art Associates reclaimed time as a tool of social control through their subversive calendars.

• Lisa Ann Richey

What happens when companies start to sell the idea of a frictionless consumption that helps people at the same time?

• Paul S. Landau
• Hlonipha Mokoena

The ANC and Nelson Mandela’s turn to violent anticolonial struggle in the early 1960s, is the subject of a new book by historian of South Africa, Paul Landau.

• Chérif Keïta

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Litheko Modisane

The legend of Nelson Mandela was built years before his lengthy jail sentence catapulted him to global fame.

• Liz Timbs

What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?

• Christopher J. Lee

Nelson Mandela's life teaches us that being quarantined is not the end of politics, but for the regeneration of politics.

• William Shoki

A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible.

• Naledi Yaziyo

Some of the mythologies about Nelson Mandela don't line up with actual histories.

• Benjamin Talton

The Mandelas and Africa's place in African American politics and popular culture.

• Ross Truscott

Media studies scholar Sharon Sliwinski asks whether dreaming can be recast as a vital form of resistance to political violence. A review of her book.

• Nicholas Grant

In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.

• Sampie Terreblanche

The elite compromise of the early 1990s emphatically excluded the possibility of a comprehensive redistribution policy.

• Sisonke Msimang

Winnie was everything Africans - and African women in particular - were not supposed to be.

• Boima Tucker

• Clive Gabay

When it comes to Africa, as Wole Soyinka recently wrote in his book "Of Africa," the West is constantly careening between hope and despair, Rwanda and Mandela

• Dan Moshenberg

• Nosipho Mngomezulu