• Rama Salla Dieng

What contestations over land in urban Senegal tell us about political economy in the post-colony.

• Jordan Taliha McDonald

A new film by documentarians Sara Newens and Mina T. Son shows yet another way in which nature is enlisted to marginalize Black communities.

• Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Documenting an urban housing crisis and how tens of thousands of informal workers and unemployed people struggle to reshape Johannesburg.

• Nicky Falkof

What happens to the contemporary explosion of moral panics, urban legends, and other paranoid narratives when they manifest in a place like South Africa?

• Benjamin H. Bradlow

Marcel Paret’s book, "Fragmented Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion," tries to make sense of politics in South African urban informal settlements.

• Bamba Ndiaye

After defying the state apparatus in March 2021, Senegalese voters sent a strong message of disobedience and sanction via their ballots in January 2022 and signaling their readiness for another regime change in 2024.

• Wangui Kimari
• Constant Cap

Urban displacements greatly diminish the living conditions of already desperate populations living on the brink of poverty in Kenya's capital.

• Lewis Mwaura

Why is Nairobi's government terrorizing hawkers and hustlers around the city? An anthropological perspective.

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the first video from a series for the Capitalism In My City project, Brian Mathenge decodes what everyday capitalism looks like from the margins of Nairobi.

• Lucy Wambui

Drug use among young people in Nairobi's slums is on the rise. Youth also face arbitrary arrests by the police, resulting in jail time which turns them into hardcore criminals in a vicious cycle.

• Samuel Gathanga

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.

• Katie Jane Fernelius

Eko Atlantic in Lagos, like Tatu City in Nairobi, Kenya; Hope City in Accra, Ghana; and Cité le Fleuve in Kinshasa, DRC, point to the rise of private cities. What does it mean for the rest of us?

• Elsa Rousset

The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.

• Celia Breuer

The future of Kenya's matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi's culture and society, is all but absent in the government's neoliberal vision for urban planning.

• Jamie Hitchen
• Kieran Mitton

In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.

• Shona Kambarami

In Zimbabwe, the leap from online conversation to citizen protest has followed the same path as other protest movements around the world.

• Boima Tucker

If there's an underground dance scene or marginalized community nearby, Diplo or some DJ like him has or probably will "discover," re-frame, and sell it to audiences in another part of the world.