• Savo Heleta

The UN and South Africa's Statistics Service are exaggerating immigrant numbers and playing with people's lives in South Africa.

• David Edwards

The privatizing and deregulating education in Liberia as much as white saviorism should take the blame for the sexual violence under an NGO's watch.

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

In a world of fake news, shallow analysis and torrid pontificating, combining empirical evidence with emotive expression, is what give Roy's essays legs.

• Chris Webb

Many will read Sisonke Msimang's new memoir for its musings on exile and home, but it is also a political telling of the complicated South African transition.

• John Stephens

The global response to a disease that largely effects the most marginalized populations of poorer countries shows a basic lack of respect for human rights on the part of international institutions.

• Jeanne Boyat

When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.

• Duane Jethro

The renaming of streets is an important urban decolonial practice.

• Olutimehin Adegbeye

Try being a single woman in Nigeria.

• moshood

In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.

• Scott Remer

American liberals’ continued refusal to engage seriously with the global collapse of the postwar liberal order.

• Jonathon Repinecz

Homosexuality continues to be a dangerous topic in Senegal. There, as in much of the African continent, heteronormative behavior is enforced with violence.

• Andreana Prichard

The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.

• Meghan Healy-Clancy
• Jill E. Kelly

Historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.

• Fatou Wurie

Sierra Leoneans take center stage as storytellers and active witnesses in a new documentary about the Ebola outbreak.

• Clovis Bergère

Who gets to host future editions of the men's soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.

• Kambale Musavuli

The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.

• Rishi Nath

Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears.

• Sara Geenen
• Kristof Titeca
• Josaphat Musamba
• Christoph Vogel

A critical review of Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s multi-media project, "Congo Tribunal,” about the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Susan Thomson

The Arsenal 'Visit Rwanda' sponsorship deal is government image management 101.