• Obongodu Paul Unanam

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency secures thousands of convictions every year, but when it comes to politically-connected elites, it’s a different story.

• Sada Malumfashi

Nigeria’s democracy has become dangerously fixated on capturing the presidency. Reviving regional politics may be the country’s best hope for rebuilding democratic accountability.

• Kawthar Jeewa

A landmark housing ruling in Cape Town and anti-migrant marches in Durban look like opposite stories. But they are two extremes of the same colonial question: who is permitted to occupy space?

• Mebratu Kelecha

Successive debt regimes in Ethiopia have shown that external finance can protect sovereignty, finance coercion, or build development, sometimes all at once.

• Boima Tucker

The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry and nationalist aspiration. Almost a century later, it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle.

• Matías Vernengo

Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease.

• Thea Riofrancos

From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.

• Siyabulela Mama
• Lily Manoim

South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.

• Emmanuelle Roth
• Aby L. Sène
• Gregg Mitman

Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.

• Robyn d'Avignon
• Shadrach Kerwillain

Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.

• Gopolang Botlhokwane

The apparel brand Drip was meant to prove that South Africa’s townships could inspire global style. Instead, it revealed how easily black success stories are consumed and undone by the contradictions of neoliberal aspiration.

• Sa’eed Husaini

As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture  — and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?

• Makena Maganjo

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

• Alexandra Gerasimcikova
• Paul Okumu

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership — but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.

• Joeva Rock
• Ann Kingiri
• Matthew A. Schnurr

What will we eat in the future — and who gets to decide? From lab-grown meat to agroecology, the politics of food in Africa are being shaped by tech dreams, corporate agendas, and grassroots resistance.

• Hein Marais

A new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.

• Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Trump’s trade war is framed as a battle with China — but its fallout is exposing just how little power African economies have in a rigged global system.

• Elena Sala

Javier Milei rose to power promising freedom — but his government is unleashing economic violence, criminalizing dissent, and testing the limits of Argentina’s democracy.

• Gyekye Tanoh

On the podcast, we explore: How did Ghana go from Nkrumah’s radical vision to neoliberal entrenchment? Gyekye Tanoh unpacks the forces behind its political stability, deepening inequality, and the fractures shaping its future.

• Obiora Ikoku

President Tinubu’s reforms have plunged Nigerians into economic despair, with soaring costs and violent repression, exposing the brutal toll of neoliberal policies.