• Stacey Links

COVID-19 exposes the continued inability of most white South Africans to critically reflect on privilege or engage constructively about the handling of the pandemic.

• William Shoki

The revival of an elite technocratic rationality is starting to undo South Africa's lockdown, now in its second month.

• Dami Adebayo

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.

• Abdou Rahim Lema

Recent racist incidents in China are just a manifestation of deeply rooted attitudes vis-à-vis "blackness" in China that predate and will outlive COVID-19.

• Indira Govender

Why we need randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to find the best ways to treat COVID-19.

• Christine Mungai

The fundamental flaws in President Uhuru Kenyatta's plan to make jails profitable.

• Khalifa Said

NGOs have been notably absent in the fight against COVID-19, despite claims they exist solely to ensure accountability and transparency by government.

• Liam James Kingsley

COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.

• Lebohang Liepollo Pheko

The South African government's COVID-19 "rescue plan" is an opportunity to rethink its economic model, if it can break with market orthodoxy.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Rama Salla Dieng

How young, African feminist scholars are using their life experiences as sources and resources for theorizing their feminism.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Demolishing homes of poor residents in Accra while under lockdown, tells us all we need to know about the Ghanaian state's treatment of working class people.

• Rasna Warah

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.

• Camilla Houeland

African health workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applause.

• Shannon Brincat

The climate crisis, resource extraction, and the insurgency by a group claiming affiliation to ISIL in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.

• Paul Fargues
• Aline Deschamps

Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.

• Iriann Freemantle

The unprecedented distress of momentarily locked-down lives should prompt Europeans to realize how much their leadership curtails freedom of movement on a permanent basis on the African continent.

• Peter Hoffman

Efforts to introduce 'peacebuilding' as panacea to current trends in US military spending do little to shift the imperialist status quo.

• James Caunt

The arrival of coronavirus in the Comoros Islands has seen a disruption of informal migration routes and the unequal power relationship between the archipelago's islands.

• Lionel Zevounou
• Amy Niang
• Ndongo Samba Sylla

More than 90 African intellectuals wrote an open letter to African leaders about the continent’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.