• Katie Jane Fernelius

Eko Atlantic in Lagos, like Tatu City in Nairobi, Kenya; Hope City in Accra, Ghana; and Cité le Fleuve in Kinshasa, DRC, point to the rise of private cities. What does it mean for the rest of us?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Iniciam nosso projecto sobre o capitalismo em Nairobi, perguntando: Será que já não existe um salário decente?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Tunaanza uchambuzi wetu kuhusu ubepari jijini Nairobi tukiuliza: Je, kuna kitu kama mshahara mzuri siku hizi?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

We start our project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?

• Lynn M. Thomas

The intersecting dynamics of class and gender, changing beauty ideals, and the expansion of consumer capitalism in Africa.

• Christine Mungai

The fundamental flaws in President Uhuru Kenyatta's plan to make jails profitable.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, social distancing to bring down COVID-19 infections takes a decidedly local shape. In a racialized society, it manifests primarily as white melancholia and black Afro-pessimism.

• Christopher J. Lee

COVID-19 isn’t simply a medical or epidemiological crisis; it is a crisis of sovereignty.

• Olivier van Beemen

Multinational corporations are considered motors for development in Africa and the Dutch beer giant Heineken is often cited as one of the best examples. The reality is different and distressing.

• Ari Sitas

The world is out of joint and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of its great public intellectuals, has left us—albeit with tools to battle the dying kicks of capitalism.

• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Philanthropy and celebrities are not enough to remedy the inequalities that persist in Kenya.

• Tula Connell

How women farm workers in North Africa, specifically Morocco, are achieving justice on the job.

• Duane Jethro

Duane Jethro goes to South African fast food chain, Chicken Licken, to eat a Big John Burger, and finds out the postcolonial feelings it inspires.

• Stephanie Jay

In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.

• Jörg Wiegratz
• Giuliano Martiniello
• Elisa Greco

Challenging the success narrative that masks the disruptive social impact of neoliberal transformation under General Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.

• Alex Park

In recent years, Rwanda and Ethiopia have been some of the largest recipients of aid money from the UK and US governments, as well as some of the West's leading philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.

• Nicholas Grant

In his writings and speeches, Nelson Mandela exposed the links between American power, capitalism and racism.

• George Kibala Bauer

Despite what Dangote wants us to believes about the magical power of entrepreneurship, his business savvy alone is not why he made it.