Whose land is it anyway?
What contestations over land in urban Senegal tell us about political economy in the post-colony.
What contestations over land in urban Senegal tell us about political economy in the post-colony.
Small scale farmers in Tunisia are caught between international actors and a domestic policy that protects corporations.
Asher Gamedze on his new single ‘Wynter Time,' and the struggle of oppressed peoples against dispossession, exploitation and alienation.
Successive Ethiopian governments have continued a 'modernizing' project that not only offers people false dreams, but actively dislocates them from the things that gave them purpose in the past.
Safi Faye's 1976 film, 'A Farmer's Love Letter,' exposes the gap between the post-colonial state and the concerns of ordinary people.
In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.
In South Africa, land occupiers are evicted from their homes in the name of housing delivery. On the Africa Is a Country Podcast this week, we attempt to understand why.
Western conservation NGOs condemn violence against Maasai, but also don't want herders or subsistence hunters on land they want to control and profit from.
Why are Ngorongoro's Maasai at risk of being evicted again? Tanzania's conservation-tourism industrial complex wants them out.
Urban displacements greatly diminish the living conditions of already desperate populations living on the brink of poverty in Kenya's capital.
To compensate for its possible isolation by the West, Russia could turn its attention to Africa, making the continent the next center stage for imperialist struggles.
In Mozambique, a troubling pattern of land grabbing, pollution and death. This time at the hands of a Brazilian-owned coal mine.
The grievances of this generation in Kenya are disturbingly similar to those of the generation of the 1940s who took up arms in the Mau Mau movement. For both, it is about land and freedom.
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
South Africans fight for “adequate housing,” freedom from eviction, and a government that will progressively realize both of these goals.
Local biodiversity loss and degradation of resources will have the greatest effect on communities in regions of biofuel expansion.
I’ve lived a good part of my life in Mathare 4A, part of the larger Mathare slum in Nairobi. Decent housing remains a pipe dream for the majority of the city's residents.
We can only end hunger when people have control over what they eat and how that food is produced.
As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.
Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.