• Lindsey Green-Simms

Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.

• Mohammed Ademo

• Open Stellenbosch

The arrogance of apartheid-denialism at Stellenbosch University.

• Myra Ann Houser

• Sophie Woolley

• Camilla Houeland

To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.

• Sisonke Msimang

Is there a place where white people are more committed to faux race blindness than South Africa?

• Ruchi Chaturvedi

• Akin Adeṣọkan

The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.

• Mark Weston

In 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the African Union that China was planning to move a number of labour-intensive industries to Africa.

• Anna K. Mwaba

The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.

• A.C. Fick

J.M. Coetzee wondered in the late 1980s what price white South Africans are willing to pay for fraternity with Black South Africans.

• Duane Jethro

One of the most scandalous statistics at the University of Cape Town: only 3% of academic staff are black, and only two full professors are black in the faculty of Humanities.

• Oumar Ba

Karim Wade, the son of Senegal's former president, is emblematic of how Abdoulaye Wade's family made the state their personal property.

• Ebenezer Obadare

A conscious effort must be made - mustering Nigeria's considerable human capital at home and in the diaspora- to build alternative structures of political engagement.

• Tawanda Moyo

Protests are important because they raise awareness. Awareness leads to dialogue. And dialogue may lead to lasting solutions.

• Africa Is a Country

• Adam Bahar

A migrant's fight for a place in Germany.