• Henning Melber

South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (1957-2021) was a musical giant. She also launched her own label and advocated for women's rights.

• Mary de Haas

The cruel and lonely COVID-19 death of the South African land and rural women’s activist, Siza Ngubane.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Lessons on radical politics from a 1970s political-cultural icon. Rawlings also dominated and shaped Ghanaian politics through the 1980s and 1990s.

• April Zhu

To those who did not know Emma Gama Pinto, she was just “the wife of Pio Gama Pinto,” the Kenyan anticolonial fighter, but to those who knew her, she was fearless in her own right.

• Myra Ann Houser

The Indian activist ES Reddy led the fight against South African apartheid at the UN. More importantly, his life reflected the best of left internationalism.

• Christopher J. Lee

David Graeber (1961-2020) started his career as a scholar studying Madagascar, which informed his ideas about anarchism, debt, and globalization.

• Shireen Hassim

Freund was a Marxist historian in method, attentive to political economy and to the material underpinnings of power, while retaining a critical distance to Marxism.

• Jacques Depelchin

We should honor Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba by carrying on his life's work.

• Jacques Depelchin

Il sied d’honorer le professeur Ernest Wamba dia Wamba en continuant l’œuvre de sa vie.

• Jacques Depelchin

Tunapaswa kumheshimu Profesa Ernest Wamba dia Wamba kwa kuendelea na kazi ya maisha yake.

• Chambi Chachage

Chambi Chachage’s tribute to Annar Cassam, assistant to late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and a key figure in anti-colonial movements.

• Boima Tucker

Father's Day reflections for the time of COVID-19.

• L. Muthoni Wanyeki

A close friend remembers the Kenyan writer and commentator Binyavanga Wainaina (January 18, 1971 - May 21, 2019).

• Isabel Ortiz

Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) bravely stood up for social policies and the developmental state.

• Ruth Castel-Branco

Remembering Marcelino dos Santos, founder of Frelimo and the former Vice President of the People’s Republic of Mozambique.

• Serubiri Moses

Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Carilee Osborne
• Michael Nassen Smith

Turok, who died at 92, was committed to fighting for the ideals of the left in South Africa. It is worth reviewing what his contribution to these ideals were in the final chapter of his life.

• Myra Ann Houser

Davis, who died at 84 on October 15th, was a prominent leader of the anti-apartheid movement in the US and an analytical thinker and visionary.