• Madina Thiam

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, a number of West African Muslims migrated east, settling in Sudan and Mecca, to seek refuge from European colonization.

• Amar Jamal

During the Sudanese uprising, Khartoum became a carefully re-mapped city where only the revolutionaries knew its paths.

• Edwin Madunagu

Was the #EndSARS protests a victory or a defeat for the country's popular masses?

• António Tomás

Angolan political authorities are not particularly interested in justice or tackling corruption. It is more about settling scores.

• Hamza Hamouchene
• Selma Oumari

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet.

• James Courtright

As some Gambians speak before the country's TRC, the testimonies create a space for their compatriots to express ideas about rights, dignity and social values.

• Keren Weitzberg

Borders and camps across Africa are using biometrics to track refugees. For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies.

• Dauti Kahura
• Akoko Akech

Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, wants to be president. He projects himself as a go-getter. But there is a more sinister story behind his hustler narrative.

• Benjamin Fogel

South Africans are learning the hard way that corruption cannot simply be solved through technical fixes and increasing “accountability” through locking the villains up.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

New Zealand's Prime Minister is a very nice centrist. People in the rest of the world, including Africans, calling for her to be emulated should be careful what they wish for.

• Femi Aborisade

The background to the #EndSARS protests and celebrating a movement that challenges Nigeria’s ruling class.

• Brooks Marmon

Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.

• Marcia C. Schenck

In 1969, the OAU proposed its own refugee convention to reflect African values. Why did it not become policy across the continent?

• William Shoki

In the shadow of the US election, this Tuesday on AIAC Talk, we talk African immigration to the United States with Abraham Zere and Aya Saed.

• Hamza Hamouchene

Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination.

• Oyunga Pala

At the largest gathering of black people he had ever seen together in Amsterdam, the author, originally from Kenya, wonder why they knew so little of each other.

• Nomi Dave

The recent election has led to violence and general pandemonium. An explosion of independent journalism offers hope.

• Jimi O. Adesina

Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.

• Lidet Tadesse

The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.

• Manjusha Nair

Industrialization was sought as a panacea to ethnic conflicts, resource crisis, and unemployment. But what prospects does it actually offer to Ethiopian youth?