• Beatriz Ramalho da Silva

In Angola, the poor are not entitled to full citizenship rights. They also are the base of resistance to the regime.

• Sisonke Msimang

There is a lively, angry, often chaotic debate about the role and place of the father of the South African nation.

• Brahim Roubah

The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people.

• Jennifer Yvette Terrell

On mobility, democracy and making a decolonized future for Africa.

• Stephanie White

Structural Adjustment Programs, implemented by the World Bank and IMF in developing countries, leave the administrative state especially unequipped to deal with climate change.

• Jeffrey W. Paller

Why do so many of the urban poor support John Mahama and Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress?

• Melchisedek Chétima
• Alliance Fidèle Abélégué

Why a military-only approach against Boko Haram in the countries bordering Lake Chad will always fail: it doesn’t address the root causes of political conflict there.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

Cameroon claims to be a democracy. Then why are even moderates like Maurice Kamto in jail?

• William Shoki

Combating Zionism requires a vision that pays no credence to ethno-nationalism. As the world reconsiders the one-state solution, South Africa should lead the way.

• Sam Broadway

If Rwandan support for the RPF and Kagame is so universal and genuine, why the murder, frequent arrest, torture and imprisonment of opposition politicians and investigative journalists?

• Anne Heffernan

The popular myth holds that most South African major resistance leaders come from its coastal regions. That's not been the case since the mid-1970s.

• Alden Young

Omar al Bashir has fallen in Khartoum. Beyond regime change—managed by the military—there's a deeper economic crisis.

• Dan Hodgkinson

The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.

• Zahra Moloo

Judi Rever's account of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath challenges the official narrative.

• Pedro Monaville

Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?

• Yousef Khalil

The mass of people in North Africa are still a force to be reckoned with and the region is still far away from a return to authoritarian stagnation.

• William Minter

Beyond immediate disaster relief, sustainable global responses to climate change require greater and more predictable funding to strengthen the resilience of the planet's most vulnerable regions.

• Ampson Hagan

European nations increasingly look to the physical space of African nations for potential solutions to their racial and demographic anxieties.

• Gregory Mann

Mali can't guarantee its citizens that it will protect them.

• Lineo Segoete
• Tsebo Phakisi

Teachers are undervalued around the world. The Lesotho teachers strike is yet another case to prove that point.