What African economies need: good, old fashioned industrial policy
In terms of economic development, most African countries are operating below the least developed country income
Politics
No higher form of hypocrisy
Why is the United States, not a signatory to the Rome Statute, defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
Is it too late now to say sorry?
The IMF is now acknowledges its neoliberal agenda over the last couple of decades was a mistake. Should we take them at their word.
Kenya’s Refugee “Problem”
The government is using the refugee population as red meat in local politics and a bargaining chip for more international aid.
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
Julius Malema’s Tailored Revolution
The color red, berets, and plain workers’ clothing have all become potent aesthetic symbols for South Africa's EFF.
Intersectionality and Economics
Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.
The legacy of Albert Johanneson
Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.
Could Angola have prevented its yellow fever epidemic?
Angola is in the midst of a yellow fever outbreak that has caught worldwide attention. Between
Postapartheid South Africa’s negative moment
The political theorist Achille Mbembe, from the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, describes South Africa
Fantastically Corrupt
Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?
Africa’s Premier League
The story of Africa's long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.
No home for the “go-home blacks”
African refugees are systematically excluded from priority groups for resettlement in Western countries. The case of Canada.
Inequality and more inequality
Reading maps, the interventionist state and another $15 billion missing from Nigeria's government.
The business of lies
The Internet has lied to the gullible for years, and Africa's version of fake news sites have been carrying on the tradition.
The Ghost of the IMF’s Past
The IMF’s latest tussle with the government of Mozambique and Voodoo Economics are among our #WeekendSpecials
Is there a Left in Nigeria?
Most contemporary observers of Nigerian politics would be surprised to learn that the Left has been a significant part of the country’s postcolonial history.
Abnormal Sport
In South Africa activists and sports people campaigning to isolate apartheid, declared: “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” That idea has rattled Israeli diplomats.
When Haile Selassie went to Jamaica in 1966
The 21 April 1966 visit by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica casts a big spell over the appeal of Ethiopia to Rasta and how Ethiopians perceive Rasta in turn.
The vote of Kwaku, the Ghanaian plumber in the Bronx
Africans are a fast-growing segment of the black immigrant population in the U.S, but there are few attempt to court them as voters.