Yahya Jammeh’s tribalism
How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.
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Kenya’s greatest virtue
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?
The Fourth Way
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, knows young people in Congo want him gone.
Our Subjective List of The Best Books of 2016
We asked our editorial group, some contributors and friends to let us know what they would rate as their best hardcover they read this calendar year.
Kabila’s impasse
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.
Africa Is a Country is joining Jacobin
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“I will become a straight girl”
Almost four out of five men in South Africa surveyed had raped their first victim before the age of twenty.
