Ruto’s Kenya
Since June’s anti-finance bill protests, dozens of people remain unaccounted for—a stark reminder of the Kenyan state’s long history of abductions and assassinations.
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Labor pains
Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.
Learning from Chile
Chile’s march to a progressive constitution and egalitarian transformation has stalled. What can movements in the Global South learn?
The politics of maandamano
Kenya’s cost of living demonstrations have as much to do with popular discontent as they do with the opposition capitalizing on frustrations.
Demystifying austerity
Government’s around the world are talking about tightening their belts. Austerity is a common economic policy, but what is it actually? On the podcast, we discuss.
As we lose our fear
The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ protests
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
If we lie down, we are dead
Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.
The global and class inequalities of fossil fuel subsidy reform
Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.
Sudan’s national salvation
Omar al Bashir has fallen in Khartoum. Beyond regime change—managed by the military—there's a deeper economic crisis.
Social media and political violence in Cape Town
Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn't always a good thing.
The struggle for moral authority in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
Kabila’s impasse
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.
The point of no return in Ethiopia
Whatever we make of the Ethiopian government’s prevarication, the Irreechaa Massacre was a point of no return for the people.
What next for Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe is going through an evolution, not a revolution. Over the past few weeks, pundits and
‘Til death do us part
The Bongo family has ruled the central African country of Gabon uninterrupted for 49 years. This
#ThisFlag, social media and political agency in Zimbabwe.
In Zimbabwe, the leap from online conversation to citizen protest has followed the same path as other protest movements around the world.
Fed up and not afraid
Anti-government protests in Zimbabwe face the risk of falling into obscurity – the unfortunate and all too common destination of many such movements.
Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
When Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment
In 1967, West Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment. In September of that year, socialist students