
Building a revolutionary party in Nigeria
On the second anniversary of Nigeria’s African Action Congress party, it is time to take stock of its track record and political prospects.
On the second anniversary of Nigeria’s African Action Congress party, it is time to take stock of its track record and political prospects.
Africa should demand a politics where carbon removal targets and techniques are set by community decisions rather than by market forces.
The make-believe consensus built around local government elections continues as always to ignore the views and expectations of Angolans. But the people are organizing.
O consenso aparente construído pelo regime em torno das eleições autárquicas continua, como sempre, a ignorar as opiniões e expectativas dos angolanos. Mas a juventude angolana está a mobilizar-se.
Francophonie has served to obscure the harms caused by neocolonial projects in Africa, projects that are themselves a reflection of the racism within France’s borders.
Reflections on Malawi’s recent election rerun, false starts and the hope that public representatives in Africa become accountable to their electorates’ aspirations.
In Kenya, only the rich and politically connected can afford decent healthcare. Everyone else is a major illness or a road accident away from ruin.
In this, the first of a series of posts, we critically look at the implications of climate policy in the most powerful Western country for Africans.
Official Ghanaian pan-Africanism is now less motivated by African liberation and solidarity and more by profit incentives. Ghana’s Year of Return is the best example of this.
How climate change is threatening lives in Kenya.
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism.
Amilcar Cabral remains inspirational for Africans and non-Africans challenged by injustice and oppression.
Americans could learn a thing or two from Africans’ history of resisting structural adjustment policies.
We need to reimagine our conceptions of feminist justice in South Africa: Putting people in cages is not liberation.
The recent suspension of Nigeria’s anti-corruption tsar provides an opportunity to re-assess the country's anti-corruption approach.
African societies are failing to systematically capture the true impact of COVID-19.
Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.