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African societies have continued to be afflicted with deleterious challenges and problems, years after gaining independence from colonialism. Post-colonialism, if it was anything real, was supposed to be preoccupied with the pan-Africanism vision of revaluation of African cultures, respect of human rights of all people on the continent, intensified continental cooperation for sustainable development, peace, security and stability. Instead, Africa has continued to be gripped by internal strife, insecurities and power inequities that manifest along the existing geopolitical entities defined through the socio-political boundaries. Notwithstanding the rejection of the latter's bordering of the nation-states as artificial, African states have continued to order and re-territorialise sovereignty in ways that have accentuated colonially-inspired cultural divides, amounting to "new racism" on the continent (Adjai & Lazaridis, 2013; Jolly & DiGiusto, 2014). Whereas the spectrum of Africa's problems is long, human migration together with the attendant xenophobia expressed within local societies against African immigrants have become prominent with repeated violent public abuses in South Africa in 2008 and 2015. For this reason, the Journal for Transdisciplinarity Research in Southern Africa has dedicated this special edition to the unfinished discourses on the African societies, nation-states, governance, human migration, xenophobia and cultural contestations.

African societies, nation-states, governance, human migration, xenophobia and cultural contestations: Editorial framing