• Sisonke Msimang

We know what will happen with this new virus, and so I cannot blissfully self-isolate.

• Yotam Gidron

A new book explores the rationale of Israel’s efforts to expand its influence on the African continent.

• Jessica Musler

Coronavirus and the problematic perception of migrants as health threats.

• Simukai Chigudu

What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?

• Hilda Flavia Nakabuye

Why we need to make climate action our daily duty.

• Zeb Larson

A new effort to block chocolate imports from Cote d’Ivoire to the US brings attention to cocoa’s problematic supply chain.

• Youcef Oussama Bounab

In the 1960s, Algiers was a beacon for worldwide liberation movements. What happened to its rebellious spirit?

• William Shoki

The coronavirus pandemic places moral, economic, and political questions before us. Only two answers remain: socialism or barbarism.

• Jessica Moody

The demise of Alassane Ouattara’s presidency in Cote d’Ivoire.

• David Tonghou Ngong

The use of a singular narrative to explain the divisions within Cameroon belies the reality that both anglophones and francophones are complicit in the conflict.

• Chambi Chachage

In a ruling party-dominated Tanzania, opposition parties are flawed but remain critically important.

• Abdou Rahim Lema

The coronavirus COVID-19, just like Ebola, reminds us what happens when crisis ignite deep-rooted stereotypes. Yet viruses, or any disease for that matter, do not see color. Nor do they recognize states borders and ethnic enclaves.

• Zama Mthunzi

With 7.9 million young South Africans out of work or with very little education or training opportunities, who looks out for their aspirations?

• Jesse Harber

One major historical function of the police in South Africa remains: to manage the poor.

• Herman Wasserman
• Sean Henry Jacobs

How Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters drive political conversations in South Africa.

• Loren B Landau
• Roni Amit

Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.

• Rose Ndengue

Rémanences autoritaire, oligarchique et mâlecentrée de l’espace politique camerounais.

• Rose Ndengue

Authoritarianism, oligarchy, and patriarchy governs the Cameroonian political landscape.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, the political class use foreign nationals as scapegoats to obfuscate their role in reproducing inequality. But immigrants are part of the excluded.

• Henning Melber

Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.