• Herman Wasserman

Professor Sampie Terreblanche, who passed away at 84 on February 17, 2018, was one of South Africa's foremost political economists.

• Chris Webb

Masekela wanted to craft a sound that avoided “world music” caricature while not simply mimicking the American Bebop he was so enamored of.

• Peter Katjavivi

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, who died at 92 on 9 June 2017, was one of the founders of Namibia's modern liberation movement that led the fight for political independence.

• Riason Naidoo

Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro passed away. To many Africans Fidel was a hero, playing a central role in their liberation from colonialism.

• Zubair Sayed

The author, also named Muhammad, on what having a black hero meant during his childhood in Apartheid South Africa.

• Zachary Rosen

Amy Sall (Sunu Journal), Candace Keller (Michigan State), Drew Thompson (Bard), curator Thato Mogotsi and Cherif Keita, reflect on Malick Sidibé's impact.

• Teju Cole

The author, also a photographer, writes about receiving the sad news that Malick Sidibé, the Malian master photographer, has died, at the age of 80.

• Alex Lichtenstein

Martin Legassick (1940-2016) was key to revisionist tradition among South African historians that made connections between apartheid and post-war capitalism.

• Muti Phoya

Rose Chilambo was a prominent leader in the fight against British colonialism and the first woman cabinet minister in independent Malawi.

• Bella Matabanadzho

The feminist Bella Matabanadzho remembers Zimbabwean academic and activist Sam Moyo carrying his "intellectual smarts with so much ease."

• Thiven Reddy

• Peter Cole

An ally of a who’s who of revolutionaries like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Oliver Tambo, and Kenneth Kaunda.

• Percy Zvomuya

In Terence Ranger, politics and history, nationalism and scholarship, intersected in ways rarely seen. Zimbabwe and Africa, will forever be in his debt.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

How a Mexican show helped to construct a patchy and ill-defined “Latin American” identity.

• Dennis Laumann

A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.

• Jean Allman

A historian of Ghana, Ivor Wilks was crucial to the founding of African history as an academic discipline in the late 1950s and to its development over subsequent decades.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of African Americans artists and intellectuals moved to Ghana as part of attempts to redefine their relationship to citizenship in the U.S. as well as their African identities.

• Harry Odamtten