• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Ryan Brunette

The July riots in South Africa felt similar to those by Peronists in Argentina in December 2001. But Zuma’s people are moving from a much weaker position.

• Franziska Rueedi

Within a context of spiraling poverty and inequality in South Africa, the lessons of uprisings in the 1980s are well worth revisiting. For millions of people, their socioeconomic demands remain unfulfilled.

• Niall Reddy

If South Africa’s Left can’t find a way to channel popular discontentment into the building of mass progressive movements, it will instead morph into anarchy, nativism and, inevitably, authoritarianism.

• Yotam Gidron

Israel’s success in getting observer status at the African Union is also a sign of the growing lack of interest among African leaders in the Palestinian issue altogether.

• Olívio N'kilumbu

Em Angola, o governo de Presidente Lourenço não conseguiu resolver a pandemia de COVID-19 devido a corrupção e incompetência.

• Siphiwe I. Dube

South African politics remain fertile ground for new orientations: mainly by black conservatives.

• William Shoki

Post the looting and failed insurrection, what would it mean for the South African left to undertake a populist political strategy? And should it look to South America for inspiration? A long read.

• Mohammed Jameel Abdulla

If there is no material justice and investment in healing the generations of harm enacted onto South Africans, the rot in the country's wounds will overcome them.

• Hugo Canham

To riff off James Baldwin, there will be a fire next time in South Africa. The embers and kindling are in place. What matters is what South Africans do between this fire and the next.

• Dale T. McKinley

Has the trade union form outlived its usefulness for workers?

• Olívio N'kilumbu

In Angola, President Lourenço's government failed to address COVID-19 due to corruption and incompetence.

• Nicholas Githuku
• Robert M. Maxon

Three years on, the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), initiated by Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta, with former opposition leader, Raila Odinga, feels like an elite pact with no popular support.

• Stephen McLoughlin
• Maartje Weerdesteijn

How Kenneth Kaunda was instrumental in guiding Zambia through its formative years in the absence of war or mass atrocities that blighted many of its neighbors.

• Andy DeRoche

The less well-known, and complicated, story of Kenneth Kaunda’s central role in relations between Zambia and the United States.

• Andile Zulu

Approaching local elections, beyond its spectacles of defiance and never-ending episodes of controversy, what do the politics of the Economic Freedom Fighters have to offer?

• Roland Ngam

Land reform should focus on justice and social transformation, not on creating a new class of black commercial farm owners.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

The ongoing displacement and killings of minorities and the ongoing war in Tigray—labeled by the federal government as enforcing law and order—are disturbing. It can't go on.

• Paul Emiljanowicz

Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools—in this case from Marxist thought—that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.

• Emily Bridger

Oral histories conducted with women involved in South Africa’s liberation struggle offer us startlingly candid portraits of youth activism.