
Many Missing Bodies
The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

What is the death of a pregnant informal fish seller in Dakar to the suffering of sweatshop workers in Bangladesh or refugees at the borders of Europe?

All sorts of countercultural, even radical signifiers have been ransacked of their meaning in Zimbabwe.

The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.

Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.

In his memoir, the sociologist Steve Howard writes about experiencing Ramadan in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

What does it say about a country that could elect such an unsavory character?


We asked a group of experts–journalists, academics and an architect–a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?

Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara.

The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.


Drogba became one of the most famous footballers of his generation thanks to his time at Chelsea, but he never won a major tournament for his national team.


What can we do for ‘the worst place in the world’? Surely this play in London, is not the thing.

The possibilities and limitations of the ICC to contribute to our collective struggles and how we conceive of justice itself.

Botswana is usually held up as an exception on the African continent for good economic and political governance. Is this a fair assessment?

Whatever we make of the Ethiopian government’s prevarication, the Irreechaa Massacre was a point of no return for the people.

We speak to an aid worker and trade unionist at the forefront of campaigns to halt the transnational corporate education reform movement.

Why is South Africa withdrawing from the International Criminal Court? And why now? And what does it mean for African states’ participation in the court.