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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
The Ramaphosa Presidency has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the compensating measures that accompany it are inadequate to protect much of the population.
Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.
While COVID-19 hasn’t yet hit African cities as hard as those in the global North, it will eventually likely penetrate deep into the countryside where the most vulnerable live and where health facilities are rudimentary.
Are the international community and the African Union really powerless to stop the fratricidal war in Cameroon, or are they just indifferent?
Few things are going on as normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, political dysfunction in Lesotho continues, with negative ramifications for Basotho.
Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country’s brutal and violent legacy of slavery.
How can a fragmented and precarious working class unite against exploitative labor relations and, in the process, transform them?
Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.
The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times’ Bureau Chief for West Africa.
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, African governments should stop seeing non-governmental actors as a threat to their own legitimacy.
With their government obsessed more with control of information than COVID-19 itself, Tanzanians are bracing for the worst.
Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) bravely stood up for social policies and the developmental state.
Coronavirus will force all of us to grapple with a new sense of mortality.
Preocupado em atrair investimentos estrangeiros e combater à corrupção ao administrar uma divisão no partido no poder, o presidente angolano João Lourenço ignora o seu aliado mais forte: a sociedade civil jovem.
Preoccupied with attracting foreign investment and fighting corruption while managing a split in the ruling party, the Angolan president João Lourenço ignores his strongest ally: youthful civil society.
Race reductionism is stunting the possibility for radical change in an ever unequal South Africa.
Black Americans are not a unified voting bloc, and it is time to start paying attention.
COVID-19 has been used to justify xenophobia and anti-Asian racism, but a white South African woman’s hoarding behavior illustrates the global anti-black and anti-poor response to crises.
Guinea, more than ever, needs an inclusive debate not only on the function of the state, but also on the nature of our institutions and therefore the very state of the republic.
La Guinée a plus que jamais besoin d’un débat inclusif non seulement sur le fonctionnement de l’état mais aussi sur la nature de nos institutions et donc l’état même de la république. Je vous propose quelques raisons.