• Peiman Salehi

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance — but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.

• Claire Mercer

Colonial urbanism cast African neighborhoods as chaotic, unplanned, and undesirable. In postcolonial Dar es Salaam, that legacy still shapes who builds, who belongs, and what the middle class fears the city becoming.

• Dawson McCall

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination — insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and transformation.

• Jon Alami

Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks.

• Jonathan Ort

Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

• Chinedu Okeke

A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power.

• Chiara Théophile

The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.

• Gelila Enbaye

The reopening of a border between Eritrea and Tigray masks a deeper realignment. As old foes unite against Ethiopia’s government, the risk of renewed war grows.

• Muoki Mbunga

Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education.

• Faraz Islam

As Mozambique faces escalating climate disasters, it is shut out of the very funds meant to protect it.

• Frank Edong'a

The 2025 Kenyan protests once again declared themselves “tribeless, leaderless, partyless.” But what does the idiom of unity hide?

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel.

• Yasin Ahmed

In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.

• Shelley Pryde

In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.

• Peiman Salehi

Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.

• Kang-Chun Cheng

Rwanda’s military deployments in Mozambique and its shadowy ties to M23 rebels in eastern Congo are not isolated interventions, rather part of a broader geopolitical strategy to expand its regional influence.

• Clement Amponsah

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

• Nathaniel Oakes

Without institutional foundations or credible partners, the Alliance of Sahel States risks becoming the latest failed experiment in regional integration.

• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

• Buster Kirchner

What happens when a former president suddenly dies? The curious case of Edgar Lungu.