• Michaela Collord

In Tanzania and beyond, political elites manage informal workers not by ignoring them—but by shaping their identities, dividing their ranks, and using class to tighten their hold on power.

• Damilare Adenola

With thousands jailed without trial, Nigeria’s justice system punishes the poor while the powerful walk free. Can real reform break this cycle of injustice?

• Alex Park

The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.

• Andile Zulu

Anxious and isolated, living in poverty or financial precarity, we sink into ourselves and adopt self-destructive coping mechanisms.

• Gacheke Gachihi

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

• Peter Lockhood

Kenya’s elites, including the church, use ponzi schemes for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see their dreams deferred if the law doesn't change.

• Dami Adebayo

Could the enduring effects of #EndSARS be the beginning of a broad alliance against an irresponsible political elite that has shirked all pretensions of being responsible to the people?

• Mohamed Duale
• Jabril Abdullahi

Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Young Africans are breathing life into Tupac’s memory, channeling his image and his music to be heard and seen in social spaces where they feel neither audible nor visible.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

One in ten young people on Cape Town's Cape Flats finish high school. The highlight of their school career - and sometime their lives - is prom, known as the matric ball.

• Sean Henry Jacobs