Tangier’s Jazzmen — and their phantom producer

• Hisham Aïdi

My Grandmother’s Archive

• Naledi Yaziyo

Faced with the uncertainty of the postapartheid world, my grandmother protects her children the same way she survived Apartheid: by making sure their papers are in order.

Why is the US army in Niger

• Anakwa Dwamena

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

The story of Zimbabwe’s once legendary health system

• Simukai Chigudu

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

The short life and times of Bhele Dlunga of Marikana

• Camalita Naicker

Amid the violence of August 2012, one positive feature that stood out was the resilience of the autonomous organization of workers and independent trade unions in Marikana.

Falling into an uneasy sleep

• Robina Marks

It took the writer, later South Africa's ambassador to Sri Lanka, 30 years to talk to her mother about rape. Her mother's rape.

A masterful experiment in film making

• Wilfred Okiche

“A Hotel Called Memory” concerns itself with elements of mood and scene and downplays aspects relating to plot or story.

East German-Africans

• Anakwa Dwamena

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

Wobblies of the World Unite

• Lucien van der Walt
• Peter Cole

A new history of a radical union that profoundly impacted Southern African politics.

Hashtag Somalia

• Samar Al-Bulushi

There is considerably less sustained outcry on social media about African life in relation to ongoing forms of structural violence that may be more mundane but just as deadly.

The African churches of South Delhi

• Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Every Sunday and even on weekdays thousands of Africans living in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) head to “charismatic” church services lasting three to four hours.

In a film about war, can you leave out the politics?

• Nikkie Wiegink

The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down.