• Emily Jenan Riley

Asylum seekers from Africa are caught in a growing crisis at the US-Mexico border, as Trump's policies leave them in legal limbo and unsafe conditions.

• William Shoki

Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.

• Herman Wasserman

The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base.

• Andile Zulu

As economic crises deepen, right-wing fearmongering and racial scapegoating thrive—masking the real struggle for economic justice.

• Kathryn Mathers

The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled—but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.

• Pontsho Pilane

Foreign aid has never been just about assistance—it enforces political, economic, and social control, keeping recipient countries in a cycle of dependency.

• Steven Friedman

Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.

• Dan Magaziner

Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory.

• Efthimios Karayiannides

While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.

• Elizabeth Schmidt

Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?

• William Shoki

On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?

• Maher Mezahi

Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Rachel Dubale

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?

• Alex Park

The ultra-conservative American televangelist Pat Robertson has died. As poisonous as his influence on American politics was, Robertson’s legacy in Africa is even more cynical.

• Wamuwi Mbao

While there is much to mourn about the passing of legendary American singer and actor Harry Belafonte, we should hold a place for his bold statement-album against apartheid South Africa.

• Sheila D. Collins

American civil rights activist George Houser was also active in Africa’s anti-colonial struggle. To write his biography, Sheila Collins widely read 20th century African political history.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Buharism, the social and economic outlook of Nigeria’s outgoing president, did not seek an alternative to neoliberal globalization, but sought to consolidate Nigeria’s place in it.

• Daniel Paget

Authoritarian populism isn’t the only authoritarian project we should be worried about, as Tanzania under the late John Magufuli showed.

• William J. Mpofu

The war in Ukraine indicates a new world disorder, where great powers fight for primacy and Africa continues to be exploited.