Does the deal in Sudan represent an actual democratic transition?
The power sharing agreement between Sudan's military rulers and the opposition aside, at present there are two main possibilities for Sudan.
Politics
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
The problem of African countries' memberships to multiple regional bodies? There's no problem.
Is the world ready to support a Green New Deal for Africa?
The Green New Deal is surely the United States’ most ambitious vision for climate justice to date. But the climate crisis is a global one and Africa is Ground Zero.
Democracy and the left in post-apartheid South Africa
A veteran African National Congress stalwart and member of parliament speaks to Africa Is a Country about the party, South Africa's Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa.
Election frauds and new leaders
Election meddling may have sullied the reputation of Senegal as a beacon of democracy in West Africa, but a popular opposition candidate is giving hope for a new wave of Pan-Africanism in the region.
Nostalgia for empire
Boris Johnson is in the running for UK Prime Ministers. The UK Conservative Party is particularly fond of Britian's colonial past, but Johnson usually outdoes himself in this regard.
Victory over Vedanta
Zambian farmers win ground-breaking legal victory in the UK.
Skin politics in northern Ghana
What we know about conflicts over chieftaincy in northern Ghana.
Palm oil production, good or bad for Africa?
Unsustainable palm oil industry practices—the result of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) across Africa's tropical belt—have resulted in a number of social and environmental concerns.
Gender in Cameroon’s anglophone crisis
Women have undertaken measures to cope and resist against the backdrop of Anglophone—Francophone tensions in Cameroon.
Blind to the matatus
The future of Kenya's matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi's culture and society, is all but absent in the government's neoliberal vision for urban planning.
The crisis of Ghana’s fisheries
Ghana is facing widespread illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its coastal waters causing economic hardship in fishing communities.
Pan-African aspirations by neoliberal means
As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project—creating the largest free-trade area in the world—we have some questions.
Are the Russians forging an ’empire’ in Africa?
In contrast to renewed fears in the west over Russian expansionism in Africa, Russia's increased presence on the continent is mostly about pursuing lucrative business opportunities.
Climate, conflict and capitalism fuel xenophobia
We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.
The complicated political legacy of Jerry Rawlings
Jerry Rawlings is widely cited by working class people as one of Ghana's best presidents. But his legacy is complicated by his association with political violence as a military dictator, and by his ushering in of neoliberalism.
Senegalese activists persevere despite setback
Beyond national elections, the Y’en a Marre political movement is changing Senegalese civic and political life for future generations.
How the left can rescue Nigeria
The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left's target.
Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s queerness
Binyavanga's fashion sensibility as well as his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact after he is gone.
The apartheid propaganda playbook must fall
The strategies of Israel's South African supporters to fight BDS on the country's university campuses.