The politics of reforming traditional land in South Africa
Land reform in South Africa has to not only tackle racial inequalities of ownership, but also the power of chiefs and the Zulu royal family.
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The slave holders on the border
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
The creation of black criminality in South Africa
The seamless continuity in industrial levels of imprisonment employed by the colonial and the modern South African state.
The struggle for a minimum wage in Nigeria
Protracted negotiations about a minimum wage for workers in Nigeria put the country's unions where they belong: in front of the struggle for poor people.
Looking for my religion
The power of having a god who resembles us.
The silences in academia about capitalism in Africa
Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such.
The most powerful currency today
Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.
The tyranny of good intentions
Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.
The forgotten kingdom
The link between knowing history and political agency in northern Ghana.
The narrative of homophobia in Africa
The identities, liberal or homophobe are cultural and political. They are not a perfect mirror of the narrative of homophobia in Africa.
Everything must fall
Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.
The lady is not for turning
Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.