• Kelechi Anabaraonye

While some streets in Lagos bear the names of notable nationalist leaders and pioneering early Nigerians, less is known about the everyday social milieu in which they operated.

• Luke Sinwell

Once associated with socialism, the language of participation has been co-opted. How was this radical idea depoliticized?

• Chérif Keïta

On Father’s Day, an ode to Namballa Keïta, a nurse, soldier, and seemingly ordinary man, who worked tirelessly to promote education in newly independent Mali.

• Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman

Mainstream discourses about Aamajiranci, northern Nigeria’s Qur'anic schooling system, expose the power politics of knowledge in postcolonial societies.

• Regina Guzman

Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis—and why that is only half of the story.

• Abdou Rahim Lema

If generations of African youth are to prosper post-pandemic, a fundamental and vital shift in educational context and content is needed.

• Michelle Chikaonda

We can do more than tell young African girls to work hard in school. We need a real plan for the fully self-actualized people we want them to be.

• Savo Heleta

Why is South Africa's draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill contradicting the constitution and proposing to shield academics and scholars who propagate racist and bigoted ideas?

• Wandia Njoya

Colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya have worked to separate education from access to culture and information. It is an outdated model.

• Sophie Toupin

Today's social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.

• William Shoki

The ideal South African is not the citizen but the consumer, and this is impressed upon children immediately when some are sent to private schools.

• Nicholas Mwangi
• Irene Asuwa

Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.

• Maria-Theres Schuler

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a rigid educational system, largely unchanged from the colonial era. Slam artists and activists are working to open it up to alternative spaces of expression.

• Nana Akua Anyidoho
• Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Ghana’s ruling party has proposed a new law to control the country’s public universities. The country’s academics are fighting it.

• Ndeye Debo Seck

Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The coronavirus shut down in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.

• Zama Mthunzi

With 7.9 million young South Africans out of work or with very little education or training opportunities, who looks out for their aspirations?

• Sindi-Leigh McBride

Poor reading scores among South African children highlights the need for decolonization in book publishing, teaching and policy implementation.

• Dan Hodgkinson

The post-independence fates of Zimbabwean student activists who fought the Rhodesian regime.

• Lineo Segoete
• Tsebo Phakisi

Teachers are undervalued around the world. The Lesotho teachers strike is yet another case to prove that point.