• Stein Sundstøl Eriksen

Ghana is facing widespread illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its coastal waters causing economic hardship in fishing communities.

• Andres D. Medellin

As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project—creating the largest free-trade area in the world—we have some questions.

• Maxim Matusevich

In contrast to renewed fears in the west over Russian expansionism in Africa, Russia's increased presence on the continent is mostly about pursuing lucrative business opportunities.

• Sharon Ekambaram

We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.

• Jennifer Hart

Jerry Rawlings is widely cited by working class people as one of Ghana's best presidents. But his legacy is complicated by his association with political violence as a military dictator, and by his ushering in of neoliberalism.

• Seynabou Diop
• Myles Cunningham
• Dylan Millson
• Katya Khalizeva

Beyond national elections, the Y’en a Marre political movement is changing Senegalese civic and political life for future generations.

• Omolade Adunbi

The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left's target.

• Serubiri Moses

Binyavanga's fashion sensibility as well as his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact after he is gone.

• Raees Noorbhai

The strategies of Israel's South African supporters to fight BDS on the country's university campuses.

• Benjamin Fogel
• Sean Jacobs

South African politics urgently needs an injection of electoral energy from the left, that speaks in a language that resonates with voters, rejects chauvinism and embraces democracy.

• Noah Salomon

In post al-Bashir Sudan, new paradigms animate political action, while old ones have returned. Towards what sort of future might the protesters march?

• Vishwas Satgar

Ending the capitalist war against nature begins with eco-socialist perspectives and actions.

• Montasir Ibrahim

Lasting peace in Sudan's Darfur region - 300,000 people dead and millions displaced by regime violence - should be a priority for #SudanUprising.

• Michaela Collord

The Tanzania government's brand of heavy-handed state intervention risks fueling skepticism about the role of the state in development.

• Michael J Braun

In the Economic Freedom Fighters, power is centralized in Julius Malema's leadership. How that plays out, will affect the EFF's future trajectory.

• Camilla Houeland

At the heart of the protest movement in Sudan is a trade union. Proving again that democratic influence and change require collective participation and organization.

• Jostein Løhr Hauge
• Vincent Hardy

Labour challenges in Ethiopia's industrialization.

• Beatriz Ramalho da Silva

In Angola, the poor are not entitled to full citizenship rights. They also are the base of resistance to the regime.

• Sisonke Msimang

There is a lively, angry, often chaotic debate about the role and place of the father of the South African nation.

• Brahim Roubah

The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people.