Politics
The President has left the country
What Nigerians know about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health (he's been in London for more than one month) comes from leaks and anonymous sources.
The crisis around Lake Chad
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
Repackaging Third Way liberalism
Vox's glossy presentations, crisp design and slick animations serve neoliberalism easily digestible to younger people and conducive to social media shares.
Israel’s Scramble for Africa
Israel’s recent rapprochement to African states is part of a coordinated effort by the government to get close to African countries.
What is to be done?
The German government will have to make a substantial move towards accommodating the demands of the Namibian people.
Marxism and Islam in Africa
Karl Marx can be useful to people fighting for social justice and who at the same time are deeply religious.
White masks in Tunisia
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night
The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.
Europe’s refugee colonialism
EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”
What lessons on fascism can we learn from Africa’s colonial past?
In the 1930s fascism’s face was immediately recognizable in colonial Africa. It was neither a foreign concept nor an external threat in Africa.
African inequality rising
Every country in Africa is today less equal than it was in 2010; for the African masses the trickle-down benefits of economic growth have been relatively small.
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
The market decides if we are free
Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.
The long short history of Angola-Israel relations
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.
The Arabs had a country
No figure in the Arab world embodies the ideals and contradictions of Pan-Arabism more than Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
‘Doing good’ in an age of parody
Why does being in on the joke not slow down the desire to save Africans?
The struggle for moral authority in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
The Trump Card
Denis Sassou Nguesso's embarrassing attempt to ingratiate himself to Donald Trump.