
Rise of the reactionaries
AfriForum is no longer on the political fringe in South Africa, rather it's key in perpetuating increasingly mainstream, right-wing populism.
AfriForum is no longer on the political fringe in South Africa, rather it's key in perpetuating increasingly mainstream, right-wing populism.
This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss a new posthumous collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainana.
A jihadist insurrection has claimed 40% of Burkina Faso’s national territory. The response by military-political elites has been to add to the instability and crisis by fomenting coups.
Yoruba political ontology, non-competitive democracy, and the sacrality of power in Nigeria.
African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.
The award-winning South African author Melinda Ferguson takes us through a selection of books exploring freedom, death, truth, as well as psychedelics, which can be a route to pondering such big questions.
Sahrawis are robbed of their agency by a zero sum game for influence between two regional rivals Morocco and Algeria.
Business fraud and illicit financial flows are not a new problem for Africa—the "Drevici Affair" in Nkrumah's Ghana is instructive.
We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.
African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.
In South Africa, land occupiers are evicted from their homes in the name of housing delivery. On the Africa Is a Country Podcast this week, we attempt to understand why.
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.