Should sleeping giants lie?
Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.
Politics
An indispensable figure of African photography
Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.
The Salah effect
More and more footballers, many from Africa, are openly displaying their religious beliefs on the fields of Europe's top leagues.
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
Queering pan-Africanism
The unexpected and twisting relationship between religion, pan-Africanism, and LGBTQ activism.
The best solution is coexistence
War, peace, and cooperation among herder-farmers in northeastern Uganda.
Postcolonialism does not exist in France
It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.
Is Heineken brewing a better Africa?
Multinational corporations are considered motors for development in Africa and the Dutch beer giant Heineken is often cited as one of the best examples. The reality is different and distressing.
Colonial revisionism; German edition
The German far right party AfD has extended its revisionism of German history to the colonial era.
Laundering Isabel dos Santos
“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe.
Where will neoliberalism end?
The question is not how, or where, or when neoliberalism will end, but if it will, and what the left will do about it. The case of South Africa is instructive.
The short, white woman with a South African accent
Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.
Who was the woman behind Lumumba?
The life of Lumumba advisor, Andree Blouin, offers lessons about the historically racialized and sexualized representations of women of color in politics.
Finding a way through the deluge in Zimbabwe
Public sector strikes place major pressure on the Zimbabwean state, but not enough to effect a meaningful national dialogue on the country's direction.
On conspiracy theories
A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible.
‘Crazy Rich Nigerians’
Nigerians’ anger and frustration are deservedly directed to their government. But few point to the special breed of Nigerians: the "Crazy Rich Nigerians."
Skewing sexuality
The use of Evangelical Christianity to oppose progressive policies on sexuality education in schools is another example of Ghana’s march to the right.
I only have eyes for Bobi Wine
Is western media’s mostly individualized focus on the Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine helpful to his movement?
On meeting Pastor Evan
Evan Mawarire became a leader against Mugabe and ZANU-PF’s oppression in Zimbabwe, but at what personal cost?
The fight for the future of food
Centering African voices in a discussion so often dominated by non-African observers.