Musical chairs in Angola
Angola's new president may still chart his own political course against party directives and the interests of the Dos Santos family.
Politics
The U.S., Uganda, and the War on Terror
The United States' support for “strong man rule” in Africa, if President Yoweri Museveni’s recipe for longevity in Uganda.
Why do so many Western Leftists defend Robert Mugabe?
Mugabe was a neoliberal stooge up until the 2000s and far from being a Pan-Africanist hero sent his army to intervene in the most rapacious war in Africa's history in the Congo.
Thomas Sankara Boulevard
Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.
Reassessing Angola’s ‘Implacable Exonerator’
After 38 years of Angola's dictatorship of the elders, President João Lourenço has raised hopes that power might be more responsive to Angolans' everyday needs.
Whose awareness is raised on World AIDS Day?
AIDS interventions are often funded from afar and fail to realize the people they're trying to assist have opinions on AIDS interventions.
The uncertain future for transitional justice in Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s newly inaugurated President, suggests that Zimbabwe is “witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding democracy”.
Discours de Ouaga
Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron's "Africa Speech" in Ouagadougou?
Coups and phalluses
The moral of Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe: While men continue to share the spoils of their misrule, it seems there must always be a harlot who can be brought to heel.
The slave auction in Libya
Racism and discrimination are central to the social and cultural hierarchy in the Maghreb. Libya is no exception.
The new Old Man in Zimbabwe
From the perspective of the past, there is little evidence to invest much hope in the “successful transition” trope still reverberating in the international media about Zimbabwe.
The Incredible Hulk
What has Angola's President João Lourenço, dubbed the “implacable exonerator,” been up to?
Paul Biya Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Biya did not conceive the system by which he rules Cameroon, but deserves as much credit for the modifications that have enabled his reign.
The Interregnum in Zimbabwe
I write this quick note as an outsider (and well aware of my physical distance from
Populism as politics in Southern Africa
In Southern Africa, former liberation movements reclaim ownership over history and society not by seeking but by remaining in power.
Robert Mugabe’s hostage face
And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.
Who benefits from the military coup in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe is the fourth country in Southern Africa to have a post-independence coup. (The others are
War begets terror
Since the beginning of 2017, the frequency and lethalness of al-Shabaab’s attacks inside Somalia have reached
African leaders’ tax returns
The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.
Who do you believe about Togo’s uprising?
On the morning of October 18th, I woke up to a message from a friend in