Johannesburg cannot police its future
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarized urban policing and how we imagine the post-COVID city.
Politics
The radical politics of women’s bodies
Women in Nigeria's Kaduna state march naked and partially dressed to demand an end to deadly violence. In the process, they challenge norms about the female body.
How to build Palestinian solidarity internationally
Addressing antisemitism in anti-Zionist politics and what Africans can do about the occupation.
The myth of South African nationality
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Oil, protest and mass solidarity in Mauritius
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzed major anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius.
Abolish Kenya’s prison system
Arresting and jailing Kenya's poor isn't working to cut crime or protect people's rights. We need something else.
The hallucinatory bunker of the white right
The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives.
A seca quando chove
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
The global rise of the right-wing
Chelsea Stieber and Christopher McMichael talk the growth of right-wing nationalist movements and their ideological roots on AIAC Talk.
What Africa and Asia can teach each other
Once African and Asian leaders looked towards each other for guidance. What possibilities can a renewed cross-continental solidarity offer?
Hospitali za mabepari
Ubinafsishaji wa huduma ya afya nchini Kenya.
In the shadow of a liberation war
Kenya needs to understand the Oromo cause and what is happening across the border in Ethiopia.
Building a revolutionary party in Nigeria
On the second anniversary of Nigeria’s African Action Congress party, it is time to take stock of its track record and political prospects.
An African case for carbon removal
Africa should demand a politics where carbon removal targets and techniques are set by community decisions rather than by market forces.
How to govern Angola
The make-believe consensus built around local government elections continues as always to ignore the views and expectations of Angolans. But the people are organizing.
O desafio da governação autárquica em Angola
O consenso aparente construído pelo regime em torno das eleições autárquicas continua, como sempre, a ignorar as opiniões e expectativas dos angolanos. Mas a juventude angolana está a mobilizar-se.
The specter of neocolonialism
Francophonie has served to obscure the harms caused by neocolonial projects in Africa, projects that are themselves a reflection of the racism within France’s borders.
Our turn to eat
Reflections on Malawi’s recent election rerun, false starts and the hope that public representatives in Africa become accountable to their electorates’ aspirations.