• Rory Pilossof

At this early stage, there is little to suggest that South Africa will follow the same path as Zimbabwe.

• Melusi Nkomo

While entertaining, the showy presidential campaign of Zimbabwe's opposition may not amount to much on July 30th.

• Obert Hodzi

That China influences 'regime change' in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.

• Anna K. Mwaba

The African Union has made it a policy to challenge unconstitutional transitions of power. Why not in Zimbabwe?

• Jacquelin Kataneksza

Zimbabwe's splintered opposition appears poised to be out-maneuvered by the ruling ZANU-PF in elections later this year.

• Vimbai Midzi

The attitude that Zimbabweans need to give Mnangagwa a chance and not be quick to criticize, is what led to Mugabe's dictatorship.

• Dan Hodgkinson

Tsvangirai’s legitimacy was born out of his trusted representation of workers’ interests and the charismatic force of his personality.

• Shona Kambarami

The writer, a student in New York City, on the emotional experience of living the Zimbabwe #NotCoup in real time online and away from home.

• Benjamin Fogel

Mugabe was a neoliberal stooge up until the 2000s and far from being a Pan-Africanist hero sent his army to intervene in the most rapacious war in Africa's history in the Congo.

• Kelebogile Zvobgo

• Rudo Mudiwa

The moral of Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe: While men continue to share the spoils of their misrule, it seems there must always be a harlot who can be brought to heel.

• Timothy Scarnecchia

From the perspective of the past, there is little evidence to invest much hope in the “successful transition” trope still reverberating in the international media about Zimbabwe.

• Melusi Nkomo

In the four decades that Robert Mugabe was at the helm of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe, his rule was anything but admirable.  

• Sean Jacobs

• Henning Melber

In Southern Africa, former liberation movements reclaim ownership over history and society not by seeking but by remaining in power.

• Chipo Dendere

• Simukai Chigudu

It would be an understatement to sum it up as a tragic tale.

• Melusi Nkomo

We consider ourselves an indispensable and integral part of its national life, because it is our home, writes a Zimbabwean scholar.

• Melusi Nkomo

Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.

• Rudo Mudiwa

All sorts of countercultural, even radical signifiers have been ransacked of their meaning in Zimbabwe.