• Thomas Lesaffre

After 29 years of neoliberal failure in South Africa, foreigners are a convenient scapegoat for a national elite that failed to redistribute wealth. This is a pattern common to post-colonial Africa.

• Boima Tucker

For World Refugee Day, Africa Is a Country Radio visited Tijuana, Mexico to talk with Josiane Moukam about what life is like for African migrants at the US border.

• Michael Ugarte

The film Adú justly calls attention to Europe’s closed borders, but neglects to examine why people are migrating from Africa.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Moletsane Monyake

The Joint Boundary Commission that Lesotho and South Africa have revived, gives hope that some sort of border deal might be possible between the two countries.

• George Njung

Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.

• Achille Mbembe

The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.

• John Aerni-Flessner

What will the renewed land debate in South Africa mean for the border woes of neighbors such as Lesotho?

• Keren Weitzberg

Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.

• Robtel Neajai Pailey

In the past year, Robtel Neajai Pailey has seen her Liberian passport scrutinized more intently than ever before.

• Imara Ajani Rolston

To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.