• Zachary Mondesire

What do we gain by exposing the material shortcomings of African health systems?

• Francisco Perez

We need swift, bold, and decisive action on debt relief and monetary creation in Africa in order to face the coronavirus crisis and prevent many ordinary Africans from paying with their lives.

• Andries du Toit

In South Africa, we are not in a situation where we need to choose between saving lives and protecting livelihoods. It is far worse. We are in danger of losing both.

• 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.