• Liz Timbs

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

• Dauti Kahura

Many of Nairobi's apocalypse merchants and prophesy peddlers have disappeared in the past year. Reflections on how COVID-19 has re-shaped the city and residents' lives.

• Rose Jaji

African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.

• Jihen Chandoul

How early post-independence clarity on the link between food self-sufficiency and national sovereignty offers lessons for contemporary efforts.

• Rasna Warah

The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Moletsane Monyake

The Joint Boundary Commission that Lesotho and South Africa have revived, gives hope that some sort of border deal might be possible between the two countries.

• Ayanda Kota

Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.

• Phethani Madzivhandila

What is the South African political leader Robert Sobukwe’s legacy today?

• William Shoki

As we remember the Arab Spring, the starting point should not be that it failed, but that it’s incomplete. Watch it live on Youtube and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• William Shoki

#FeesMustFall was the most serious challenge to the post-apartheid political order, but didn’t connect to broader working-class struggles. Now, despite police brutality, students are beginning to make those linkages.

• Howard Stein

COVID-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa.

• Hanno Brankamp

Behind the anxieties about tackling forced displacement and terror, is the recognizable lexicon of racialized difference. This all infuses the practice of humanitarianism.

• Phoebe Holmes

Shell and its counterparts in the oil industry in Nigeria must accept responsibility for horrors that result from their quests for profit. Everything else is just PR.

• Marion Ouma

Social policy is essential to creating more just African countries. Why is it not the norm across the continent?

• Khalifa Said

Tanzania’s workers are at the highest risk for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Why are trade unions not taking action?

• Lassane Ouedraogo

Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.

• Theodore Powers

What would happen if people could transform state policy based on the principle of social justice? The AIDS struggle in South Africa has some lessons.

• Rama Salla Dieng

The treatment of victims of rape and sexual violence in Senegal, a country in which the bodies of women have always been an arena for political battles.

• Zahra Moloo

Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.

• Florian Bobin

The Senegalese state’s quest to crush the opposition has caused massive unrest throughout the country. A regime that blows on the embers fans the flames.