• Maha Marouan

As xenophobic attacks and anti-black rhetoric ramp up in North Africa, it is useful to highlight (or remember) the fluid, intertwined histories of the Saharan region.

• William Shoki

For democracy to succeed in Sudan, the process towards civilian rule must itself be democratized, rather than largely driven by top-down efforts.

• Zoltán Glück
• Wangui Kimari

Policing in postcolonial Kenya is at an impasse. What is needed is disinvestment from this system of repression and reinvestment in communities.

• Naseemah Mohamed

The imperative to tell the untold stories of Zimbabwean freedom fighters during that country’s liberation war, especially their engagement with spirituality.

• Charlotte Morlie

The reality of any society, any nation, and of our world, is much messier than picking a soccer team.

• Reem Abbas

Ethnic enclaves are not unusual in many cities and towns across Sudan, but in Port Sudan, this polarized structure instigated and facilitated communal violence.

• Lassane Ouedraogo

Former Africa Is a Country fellow, Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo, based in Ouagadougou talks to Bamba Ndiaye of The Africanist Podcast on the general situation in Burkina Faso the day after the coup there.

• Magnus Godvik Ekeland

Humiliation and stigma are companions for women seeking assistance from courts to obtain maintenance in South Africa.

• Thierry Michel

To put an end to general indifference about the 25 years of political violence in DR Congo, filmmaker Thierry Michel chooses to show the worst atrocities and to name the war criminals.

• Laura Evans

Revisionist histories of South Africa’s transition to democracy are overdue, like on the deadly march on Bisho in the Ciskei homeland on 7 September 1992.

• Luke Sinwell
• Nicholas Rush Smith

We know an enormous amount about what precipitated the 2012 Marikana massacre, but relatively little about what is behind the violence there since.

• 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?

• Janet Munakamwe

From Operation Fiela to Operation Dudula, xenophobia in South Africa is bent on protecting the interests of politicians.

• Sarah Leduc

Nigerians fleeing extremist violence at home take refuge across the border in Niger among an already fragile population. Together they proceed to carve out a way to live better lives for now.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Nigeria did not qualify for Qatar 2022. The troubles in the country's football administration reflect the crises in the nation’s political culture.

• Mark Deets

The 10th anniversary of the tragedy at Port Said passed without much notice in Egypt. Have Egyptians forgotten, or are they just trying to move on?

• Vickie Remoe

While Sierra Leone has come very far in its fight against sexual violence the question of safeguarding victims especially children needs urgent attention.

• Razaz H. Basheir

The dissonance between what is communicated through local and international propaganda machines and what is actually taking place across the streets of Sudan.

• Tom Menger

Gurnah’s Nobel Prize invites us to ponder Germany’s colonial past between the Scramble for Africa and the First World War in what is now Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

• Michelle Chikaonda

The multifaceted effects of gender-based violence on girls in Malawi.