• 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.

• Carilee Osborne

COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.

• Francisco Perez

Are plans for ‘reform’ of West African currency, fueled by anticolonial sentiment, merely ‘rebranding’ the status quo?

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Moses E. Ochonu

What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?

• Grace Mwaura
• Rhoda Omenya
• Emma Samman

The precariousness of life for women gig workers—in services like cleaning, driving, gardening, beauty supply, and catering—in Kenya.

• Carol Thompson

An effective response to imminent starvation in Zimbabwe requires listening to the country's farmers.

• Smith Ouma
• Alex Dyzenhaus

Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.

• Serubiri Moses

Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.

• Gina Lende

More and more footballers, many from Africa, are openly displaying their religious beliefs on the fields of Europe's top leagues.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani

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.

• Adriaan van Klinken

The unexpected and twisting relationship between religion, pan-Africanism, and LGBTQ activism.