• Sean Henry Jacobs

A quick read of comments to recent posts defending gay rights, point to how deep-seated and widespread homophobia is in Nigeria.

• Mats Utas

The regime of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia's first post-conflict president, is increasingly guilty of lack of accountability and abetting corruption.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Jonathan Faull

South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema's brand of populist politics.

• Boima Tucker

• Jonathan Faull

Omar al-Bashir has a bigger problem than the ICC: Ordinary citizens, including the middle classes, taking to the streets against the effects of austerity on their lives.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Boima Tucker

To get a taste of how unpopular Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the political class in general in Liberia are, just turn to the country's artists, especially its musicians.

• Tom Devriendt

Cote d'Ivoire's newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country's diaspora.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

African women work as domestics over the world. How have they responded to or organized to improve their conditions?

• Caitlin R. Ringwood

The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.

• Boima Tucker

Young people in Monrovia create a new music genre. Junior Freeman is at the heart of this musical revolution.

• Dan Moshenberg

Nafissatou Diall's rape accusation against Strauss-Kahn plays out in front of wider struggles by African women to secure justice and well-being.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs