• Ikenna Edwin Madunagu

From the Nigerian Civil War to decades of Marxist organizing and scholarship, Biodun Jeyifo’s life traced a tradition of commitment — one that now passes to a new generation.

• Dami Ajayi

As former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s death is mourned with official reverence, a generation remembers the eight years that drove them out.

• Chepchirchir Tirop

On the tragic death of 24-year-old marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum.

• John Githongo

Late Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, could be a political heartbreaker and a great disappointment when he moved smoothly on from a cause.

• Nana Ampadu

Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, Nana Ampadu, died on September 28, 2021. In this interview from 2007, historian Jennifer Hart talks with him about the music that made him famous.

• Liz Timbs

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Lateef K. Jakande, also known as Baba Kekere, was the first civilian governor of Nigeria’s Lagos State.

• Serubiri Moses

Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Carilee Osborne
• Michael Nassen Smith

Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.

• Myra Ann Houser

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.

• Derek R. Peterson

The late Mbiti is praised for indigenizing Christianity. However, his veneration of "African" tradition also served as theological justification for authoritarian rule.

• Judith Van Allen

The passing of American economist Ann Seidman has again spotlighted the impacts of committed scholarship on Africa.

• Andriata Chironda

A personal reflection, by the daughter of a fighter in Zimbabwe's Second Chiumurenga, on the death of President Robert Mugabe.

• Ruth Murambadoro

What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe's legacy?

• Noah Tsika

Africa and its peoples were central to the great Immanuel Wallerstein's intellectual development and political activism.

• Amanda Hammar

With Mugabe's death, might there be space for a new self-definition as a nation in Zimbabwe, as a broad family of nationals, with a shared national project?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In Cape Town, gangs have come to dominate social and economic life for the city’s mostly coloured working class.

• Chris Webb

All that French marketing schtick aside about "the white Zulu," Johnny Clegg was a real one.