• Bossissi Nkuba
• Liliane Nabintu Kabagale

With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.

• William Shoki

Africa Is a Country is proud to present a partnership with the popular South African podcast Just Us Under a Tree. On this episode, the Just Us crew analyze South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ.

• Juan Acevedo-Ossa

South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is the latest example of its ability to act as a normative superpower, exceeding even the great powers in shaping global moral discourse.

• Sohela Surajpal
• Justin Winchester

South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

• Nomi Dave

How Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, nearly broke out of prison.

• Claire-Anne Lester

In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.

• Musawenkosi Cabe

South Africa’s apartheid flag has been declared hate speech by a top court. But while courts are important and their judgments matter, racism is a long and internationally entrenched social phenomenon that cannot be undone via judicial processes.

• Rachel Etter-Phoya

The British royal family has tried to shake off its colonial past. But its long reign over these wrongs was succeeded by a new form of plunder, exacted today by Britain’s tax haven empire.

• Maya Schkolne

The struggle in Israel-Palestine lacks a sense of inclusivity, like in South Africa, that aims to take over and transform the state into a democracy for all its citizens.

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

The writings of Ugandan lawyer David Mpanga are both literary and legalistic, rooted in African conceptions of storytelling and self-determination.

• Ouafa Haddioui

It may seem obvious that a real transition to renewable energies is urgent, but not all transitions are the same or fair.

• Bronwen Mehta

Political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s collection of writings are a powerful and evocative reminder that democracy in Egypt remains a bleak prospect.

• Esther A. Armah

Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.

• Magnus Godvik Ekeland

Humiliation and stigma are companions for women seeking assistance from courts to obtain maintenance in South Africa.

• Priyanka Naidoo
• Natalie Barefoot

Communities whose land is being targeted for exploration by oil and gas companies are increasingly using the courts. South Africa points to good lessons for social movements about allying with the law.

• Julie MacArthur

Director Shameela Seedat’s film about trainee lawyers provides a sort of celebration of youth on this continent and a vision of the next generation of Africans.

• Yarri Kamara

On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.

• Nii Kotei Nikoi

Lawyerfication discourse in Ghana ignores the operation of power on the ground and conflates legality with justice.

• Dan Mafora

Mogoeng Mogoeng, South Africa’s chief justice from 2011 to 2021, is midwifing the conservative turn in South Africa’s public life. From retirement, he may also eye public office.

• Gacheke Gachihi

In the third video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, Gacheke Gachihi visits a site of environmental injustice.