• Jan Bornman

Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.

• Emma Daitz

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.

• Rachel Dubale

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

• Srila Roy
• Joel Quirk

The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid.

• Ruth Mudingayi

While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

With a coalition government likely after South Africa's elections in May, many are looking at the West for examples of coalition politics. South Africans, however, should look next door.

• Sanyaolu Juwon

Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.

• Nabil Ferdaoussi

Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.

• Omnia Mustafa
• Ghaida Hamdun

The indifference towards Sudan's suffering can be traced to a disturbing pattern deeply rooted in antiblackness.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Caught between pro-West loyalists and anti-West populists, West Africa’s regional bloc has come apart.

• Sobukwe Shukura

Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.

• Mohamed Issouf Ag Mohamed
• Mariana Bracks Fonseca

In Mali, Wagner militias are terrorizing the Fula, Tamasheq (Tuareg), and Moura population.

• Zukiswa Wanner

South African writer, publisher and curator Zukiswa Wanner explains why she is surrendering her 2020 Goethe Medaille.

• Khanya Mtshali

Are Nelson Mandela's personal belongings sellable family heirlooms or heritage artifacts of national significance?

• Ignacia Cortés Rojas
• Simon Adetona Akindes

Chile’s march to a progressive constitution and egalitarian transformation has stalled. What can movements in the Global South learn?

• Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee

South Africa’s Wits University likes to vaunt its anti-apartheid credentials. So why is it cozy with Israel and Zionism?

• Makena Maganjo

Israel’s strategy of economic partnership and development support to Kenya is a bid to legitimize its ailing international reputation.

• William Shoki

Africa Is a Country is happy to announce our collaboration with The Nigerian Scam podcast.

• Florian Bobin

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise.