Who gets to dream the future?
Against the authoritarian futures envisioned by Silicon Valley’s elites, we must expand the scope of our collective imagination and reclaim the power to imagine otherwise.
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Who can make peace hold?
Ethiopia has already shown that an agreement can stop a war and that an army can retake a capital. Whether peace lasts will be decided by the less spectacular work of making promises enforceable.
A judicial solution to a political problem
When Venâncio Mondlane goes on trial, Mozambique’s ruling party may achieve in court what electoral fraud and the violent suppression of protest could not.
Beyond survival
At Lagos’s Friends and Neighbours Festival, queer Africans came together to imagine a future beyond resilience, repression, and the constant negotiation of safety.
Picturing the bandits
A peace deal in Katsina, Nigeria, lets one armed group buy biscuits and plan for Hajj, but not lay down its weapons. Photographer Terna Iwar tells the Nigerian Scam what he saw.
The left can defeat reactionaries
From Michigan to Maine, candidates running on Medicare for All, taxing the rich, and opposing further aid to Israel won in the United States midterms, dismantling the claim that socialism is an electoral liability.
Nigeria's petrol subsidy was also an electricity policy
When the grid fails, a fuel subsidy can double as an electricity policy. What happens to the people who rely on it when the state removes it before building anything to replace it?
There are no apolitical girls in war
To understand the war in Sudan requires looking far beyond its borders, without losing sight of the people who believed that another Sudan was possible.
El Fasher, a year later
One year after the Rapid Support Forces took the city, the fight over how many died has become part of the crime.
Tanzania’s peace was never peaceful
A year after security forces opened fire on protesters across Tanzania, the violence looks less like a rupture than the return of a colonial past.
It’s not the refugees, it’s the austerity measures!
Rather than the cause of Africa’s economic crises, refugees are themselves victims of the political and economic decisions that produce displacement, deprivation, and insecurity.
Morocco’s long game
How Morocco stopped waiting for golden generations to emerge and began building the systems needed to compete at the highest level.