• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

• Sa’eed Husaini

When Africa’s richest man announced the construction of the continent’s largest crude oil refinery, many were hopeful. But Aliko Dangote has not saved Nigeria. The Nigerian Scam returns to the Africa Is a Country Podcast to explain why.

• Robyn d'Avignon

If the savannas of West Africa are a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.

• Bruce Baigrie

Mexico is fighting to regain sovereignty over its energy future, and African Leftists would do well to look to it for some answers.

• Jeffrey P. Caesar

As coal is dying we must be prepared to absorb the transferable infrastructure of this industry and re-tool it for use in the emerging economy.

• Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei
• Camden Goetz

Since European colonialism first arrived, Africa has provided its best raw materials to the global North. Can African countries finally break out of this pattern?

• Phoebe Holmes

Local biodiversity loss and degradation of resources will have the greatest effect on communities in regions of biofuel expansion.

• Muna Shifa

Governments need funds for stimulus packages and aid to address COVID-19. But corporate tax avoidance and tax breaks for aid in African countries is undermining emergency responses.

• Danny Hoffman

The physical and psychic ruins of colonial mining practice in a small town in Liberia.