• Amos Goldberg

From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.

• Faisal Ali

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

• Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.

• Yao Graham

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.

• Maren Mantovani

We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.

• Kamande Kinyanjui

Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike?

• Maya Wind

Far from democratic institutions, a study of Israeli universities reveals that they are, in fact, directly and actively complicit in Israeli apartheid and racial rule.

• Bossissi Nkuba
• Liliane Nabintu Kabagale

With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.

• Jan Bornman

Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.

• Emma Daitz

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.

• Rachel Dubale

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

• Srila Roy
• Joel Quirk

The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid.

• Ruth Mudingayi

While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

With a coalition government likely after South Africa's elections in May, many are looking at the West for examples of coalition politics. South Africans, however, should look next door.

• Sanyaolu Juwon

Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.

• Nabil Ferdaoussi

Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.

• Omnia Mustafa
• Ghaida Hamdun

The indifference towards Sudan's suffering can be traced to a disturbing pattern deeply rooted in antiblackness.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Caught between pro-West loyalists and anti-West populists, West Africa’s regional bloc has come apart.

• Sobukwe Shukura

Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.