• Sean Henry Jacobs

With the recent series of military coups, especially in West Africa, what is left for the future of politics on the African continent?

• Anakwa Dwamena

More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

• Anakwa Dwamena

The stuff we couldn't cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.

• Anakwa Dwamena

And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.

• Anakwa Dwamena

The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Including another worrying thread of the American "war on terror" on the continent: the training of vigilantes. 

• Anakwa Dwamena

Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country's next president.

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Soweto Uprising, Tupac, Walter Rodney, Jeremy Corbyn, Latin American telenovelas, etcetera, all part of this week's Weekend Special.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Ugandans make for good soldiers-for-hire, Radiohead and aparthied, the state of Left American politics and other Weekend Specials.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa's defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

African war criminals face The Hague. As for U.S. war criminals, they get to paint victims of their illegal wars—those whose bodies they broke into subjects of art.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.

• Africa Is a Country

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Our weekly update post of things we did not blog about includes a derby goal, a film about the Williams sisters and the passing of a major 20th century South African intellectual.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.