• Benjamin Rubbers

The introduction to our series, "Capital and Labor," that looks at the current state of the mining industry on the African continent.

• A. Kayum Ahmed

Africans can lead the charge to decolonize the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritized access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

• Marcel Paret

The politics of local resistance in urban South Africa: Evidence from three informal settlements.

• April Zhu

The periodic evictions of poor families in Nairobi follows in a long tradition in Kenya, dating to colonialism, to keep the city as a space for the elite.

• Eric Otieno

It will be survival for the fittest when the COVID-19 vaccine arrives. As it stands, relevant international regimes for its distribution are not in Africa’s favor.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.

• Boukary Sawadogo

How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Florian Bobin

In 1973, Senegalese activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop died in a Senegalese prison. His life helps reveal what revolutionary politics look like in a neocolonial state.

• Florian Bobin

Maisha ya mwanaharakati na msanii wa Senegal Omar Blondin Diop yatasaidia kutoa mtazamo wa jinsi siasa za kiukombozi zilivyo katika ukoloni mamboleo.

• Achille Mbembe

Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.

• Carlos Lopes

African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Iniciam nosso projecto sobre o capitalismo em Nairobi, perguntando: Será que já não existe um salário decente?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

Tunaanza uchambuzi wetu kuhusu ubepari jijini Nairobi tukiuliza: Je, kuna kitu kama mshahara mzuri siku hizi?

• Gacheke Gachihi
• Lena Grace Anyuolo

We start our project on capitalism in Nairobi by asking: Is there such a thing as a decent wage anymore?

• Benjamin Fogel

What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?

• Bayan Abubakr

The ghosts of our past mercilessly haunt our present.

• Paul T. Clarke

Why are South Africans not in the streets against police brutality like Americans are? It has less to do with the internet or middle classes. South Africans are captured by punitive logics. Break that.

• Florian Bobin

Once you've exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.

• Leiyo Singo

The misguided rhetoric of Tanzanian President John Magufuli guides the country's response to COVID-19.