• Jesse Harber

One major historical function of the police in South Africa remains: to manage the poor.

• Herman Wasserman
• Sean Jacobs

How Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters drive political conversations in South Africa.

• Loren B Landau
• Roni Amit

Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.

• Rose Ndengue

Rémanences autoritaire, oligarchique et mâlecentrée de l’espace politique camerounais.

• Rose Ndengue

Authoritarianism, oligarchy, and patriarchy governs the Cameroonian political landscape.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, the political class use foreign nationals as scapegoats to obfuscate their role in reproducing inequality. But immigrants are part of the excluded.

• Henning Melber

Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.

• Carilee Osborne

COSATU, South Africa's largest trade union federation, has a plan to simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.

• Francisco Perez

Are plans for ‘reform’ of West African currency, fueled by anticolonial sentiment, merely ‘rebranding’ the status quo?

• Vincent Foucher

Because he wants to shock his audience, the influential French philosopher and TV personality doesn’t help us make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Moses E. Ochonu

What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?

• Grace Mwaura
• Rhoda Omenya
• Emma Samman

The precariousness of life for women gig workers—in services like cleaning, driving, gardening, beauty supply, and catering—in Kenya.

• Carol Thompson

An effective response to imminent starvation in Zimbabwe requires listening to the country's farmers.

• Smith Ouma
• Alex Dyzenhaus

Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Staff writer Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

• Adriaan van Klinken

The unexpected and twisting relationship between religion, pan-Africanism, and LGBTQ activism.

• Sam Meyerson

War, peace, and cooperation among herder-farmers in northeastern Uganda.

• Haythem Guesmi

It is no longer shocking to witness the prejudice among French institutions and intelligentsia against Africa and Africans.

• Olivier van Beemen

Multinational corporations are considered motors for development in Africa and the Dutch beer giant Heineken is often cited as one of the best examples. The reality is different and distressing.

• Robert Heinze

The German far right party AfD has extended its revisionism of German history to the colonial era.