• Sebabatso C. Manoeli

The current global discourse on Black Lives Matter does not yet adequately include anti-black racism beyond how the West experiences it.

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.

• Benjamin Fogel

What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?

• Paul T. Clarke

Why are South Africans not in the streets against police brutality like Americans are? It has less to do with the internet or middle classes. South Africans are captured by punitive logics. Break that.

• William Shoki

Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated.

• Greg Burris

Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Demolishing homes of poor residents in Accra while under lockdown, tells us all we need to know about the Ghanaian state's treatment of working class people.

• Claire-Anne Lester

Who will watch the police and the army in South Africa as they act on behalf of the state to enforce COVID-19 regulations.

• Joyce Abalo
• Sarah O’Sullivan

President Museveni announces 14-day lockdown as market vendors are beaten, the sick unable to move to hospitals and the wealthy bunker down in their solar-powered homes.

• Christopher J. Lee

COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.

• Elisha Kunene

COVID-19 presents an unprecedented threat, but a campaign by South Africa's security forces attempting to grind defenseless people into dust does not guarantee success.

• Jesse Harber

One major historical function of the police in South Africa remains: to manage the poor.

• Anthony Comber-Badu

Black popular culture has gained two new heroes in Queen & Slim—a film about desperate violence.

• Paul T. Clarke

Can policing deliver justice in South Africa? The short answer to that question has been, decidedly, no.

• Panashe Chigumadzi

On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.

• Boima Tucker

Black Panther arrives as black America diversifies, but the US becomes more isolationist. It's not beyond many African Americans to reflect nativist tendencies.

• Simone Haysom

Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.

• Haythem Guesmi

Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.

• Wangui Kimari

The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.