• Chinedu Okeke

A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power.

• Chiara Théophile

The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.

• Gelila Enbaye

The reopening of a border between Eritrea and Tigray masks a deeper realignment. As old foes unite against Ethiopia’s government, the risk of renewed war grows.

• Muoki Mbunga

Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education.

• Faraz Islam

As Mozambique faces escalating climate disasters, it is shut out of the very funds meant to protect it.

• Frank Edong'a

The 2025 Kenyan protests once again declared themselves “tribeless, leaderless, partyless.” But what does the idiom of unity hide?

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel.

• Yasin Ahmed

In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.

• Shelley Pryde

In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.

• Peiman Salehi

Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.

• Kang-Chun Cheng

Rwanda’s military deployments in Mozambique and its shadowy ties to M23 rebels in eastern Congo are not isolated interventions, rather part of a broader geopolitical strategy to expand its regional influence.

• Clement Amponsah

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

• Nathaniel Oakes

Without institutional foundations or credible partners, the Alliance of Sahel States risks becoming the latest failed experiment in regional integration.

• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

• Buster Kirchner

What happens when a former president suddenly dies? The curious case of Edgar Lungu.

• Zaheer Ally

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

• Olerato K. Mogomotsi

Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.

• Jwan Zreiq

From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.

• Razaz H. Basheir

Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.

• Sa’eed Husaini

As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture —and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?