• Mishca Peters

We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.

• Florian Bobin

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise.

• Florian Bobin

Closed since June 2023, the University of Dakar has become a symbol of the collapse of Senegalese democracy.

• Oyelumade Oluwakemi

Student organizing is resurging in Nigeria. But to have any impact, students must connect with struggles beyond campus.

• Ahmed S. Ibrahim

In Somalia, poets are considered organic public intellectuals.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Young people have become an influential demographic in Nigerian politics. But are they a coherent political constituency?

• Eugénie Rokhaya Aw

In the 1970s, young left-wing activists fought clandestinely for Senegal’s democratization under Senghor’s brutal regime.

• Franklin Nossiter

Although Senegal’s protests are riven with contradictions, they testify to its people’s willingness to defend their democratic rights and freedoms.

• Line Kuppens

By looking through the lenses of Brussels’ diverse youth, 'The Porters' questions the ways Belgium fails to deal with its colonial past.

• Charlotte Morlie

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

• Omole Ibukun

Beyond the social media firestorm over journalist Trish Lorenz’s book about #EndSARS, it is worth engaging in the debate about wider representation in movement building and protest.

• William Shoki

Politics is about effectiveness, and casting youth as a political subject (rather than simply a demographic), is a bad way to do politics.

• Patrick Gathara

Voter apathy among young people in Kenya reveals fundamental flaws in Kenya’s democratic politics.

• Tolulope Itegboje

Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.

• Benjamin Talton

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

• Edwin Madunagu

Was the #EndSARS protests a victory or a defeat for the country's popular masses?

• Dauti Kahura
• Akoko Akech

Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, wants to be president. He projects himself as a go-getter. But there is a more sinister story behind his hustler narrative.

• Minoo Kyaa
• Maryanne Kasina

Vijana masikini wa jiji la Nairobi wanachukuliwa kama wahalifu kwa ajili ya vurugu za mfumo ambazo zinawanyima ajira, haki na uhuru.

• Minoo Kyaa
• Maryanne Kasina

How poor urban youth in Nairobi are criminalized by systemic violence that denies them jobs, justice, and freedoms.

• Hilda Flavia Nakabuye

Why we need to make climate action our daily duty.