
The ‘Big Man’ Syndrome in Africa
Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules?

Why do so many African leaders overstay their welcome or break electoral rules?

Africa is a Country hosted Chimurenga's pop up Pan-African Space Station transmission. It's archived here.

Here's what to read and who to follow on social media if you want to make sense of Ugandan politics now.

This is number four in our weekly round up of economics news. Written and compiled by Grieve Chelwa.

Who are the young people who want to take their country back from the leopard who has terrorized them for 30 years?


This is number three in our weekly round up of economics news. Written and compiled by Grieve Chelwa.


The vigorous disruption by social movements and artists of the thuggish racialized mythmaking that dominates Stellenbosch’s cultural memory.

For the current generation of Uganda's diaspora, the homeland is much more than a myth; it’s a reality that they can see, hear, engage, and influence.

Somali-American novelist Ega speaks about creating complex characters, the relationship of images to creative writing and the state of African literature today.