Are strongmen or liberal democracy our only choices?
With the recent series of military coups, especially in West Africa, what is left for the future of politics on the African continent?
Weekend Special
A record Congo doesn’t want
More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Emmanuel Macron’s Twitter fingers
The stuff we couldn't cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.
Thomas Sankara Boulevard
Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.
Robert Mugabe’s hostage face
And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.
African leaders’ tax returns
The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.
African borders don’t stop African people
Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.
Why is the US army in Niger
Including another worrying thread of the American "war on terror" on the continent: the training of vigilantes.
East German-Africans
Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.
King George
Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country's next president.
Weekend Special No.2034
Twitter a while back: ‘Robert Mugabe is old enough to be Muhammadu Buhari’s father.’ Robert Mugabe,
Weekend Special, No.1976
Happy Father’s Day. This was the week of June 16th–the commemoration of the 1976 Soweto Uprising,
Zambians don’t deserve their self serving politicians
Put on "Gang Signs & Prayer," the debut studio album of Stormzy (Government Name: Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo, Jr.), as this is going to be a long Weekend Special.
Weekend Special, No. 1211
(1) Identity politics is neoliberalism, as Adolph Reed once said. And it delivers like clockwork. The hip hop
Weekend Special
We’re bringing back Weekend Special. Borrowing its title from a song by the late Brenda Fassie,
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
Weekend Special, No 1002
A bunch of us went to the African Studies Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. This
Nelson Mandela founded a beauty contest
Weekend Special is basically highlights of the stuff we shared via social media, i.e. Twitter and Facebook. We fell off but feel it's the right time to do it more regularly.
Two index fingers
Our weekly update post of things we did not blog about includes a derby goal, a film about the Williams sisters and the passing of a major 20th century South African intellectual.
Hair politics and other Weekend Specials
With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.