The vibe is giving Kipchoge
The movement to #RejectFinanceBill2024 marks a new era in Kenyan politics after many years of discontent and political apathy.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
United by football?
At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.
A TikTok revolution?
Kenyan youth are leading popular protests against regressive tax reforms that will worsen the country’s worsening cost of living crisis.
Neither anthem will do
Nigerians should reject both a song that conjures colonial memories and a tune that evokes years of military rule.
Compatriots, do we hail thee?
Nigeria’s anthem change comes at a time when citizens need to interrogate Tinubu’s first year in office and ask critical questions about what democracy means to them.
Stories untold
How a Senegalese trade unionist inspired one of the continent’s greatest filmmakers.
Authoritarian India in retreat?
The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.
Le droit d’être différent
La Côte d’Ivoire peut-elle devenir un havre de paix pour les communautés LGBTQI+ en Afrique de l’Ouest?
The right to be different
Could Côte d’Ivoire one day become a safe haven for LGBTQI+ communities in West Africa?
O duplo vínculo do ANC
Após perder a maioria parlamentar pela primeira vez, o Congresso Nacional Africano da África do Sul está se esforçando para formar um governo de coalizão. Suas opções são sombrias.
Between two evils
After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.
Heeding the call
At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.
Corruption kills?
The Nigerian Scam podcast returns to discuss the rise and fall of Nigeria’s anti-corruption movement.
The sound of identity
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.
Lagos should get over itself
Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center.
Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action.