The political viability of anti-immigrationism
European nations increasingly look to the physical space of African nations for potential solutions to their racial and demographic anxieties.
Politics
A bloody scandal in Mali
Mali can't guarantee its citizens that it will protect them.
When teachers don’t get paid, we all lose
Teachers are undervalued around the world. The Lesotho teachers strike is yet another case to prove that point.
When is it antisemitic to criticize Israel?
The bases on which Israel's supporters believe it is subject to unfair criticism, are eerily similar to the rationalizations of apartheid South Africa's defenders in the 1970s and 80s.
‘Terrorism’ and antisemitism
A radical critique of the discourse on terrorism and, specifically, of repeated Israeli and US claims to moral superiority in the fight against “terrorism,” is long overdue.
The fragility of the Mozambican state
Cyclone Idai exposed a state weakened by an extractivist development model and captured by global capital, exposing ordinary Mozambicans.
The collapse of oil for insecurity
Why Venezuela’s turmoil and the Khashoggi crisis portend an even darker geopolitics of oil.
Africans are largely on their own facing climate change
What the response to #CycloneIdai tells us about Zimbabweans’ relationship to the state and each other.
How the poor can fight back against the banks
The small business owners revolution in Tanzania: Form a poor people's bank.
Diagnosing neopatrimonialism
It's been very difficult to pin down what political scientists, who favor the term, mean when they talk about patrimonialism or neopatrimonialism.
Accountability for Apartheid?
The legacy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission twenty-one years later.
A radical electoral alternative in Nigeria stutters
Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?
Algeria’s bloodless coup
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s latest attempt to buy time and the way ahead for the three week-long popular uprising against his and the military's rule.
Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
A beautiful line of flight
If what has been happening in Algeria since February 22, 2019, may not be a revolution, it very much looks like it.
Ethiopia’s capitalist turn
In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.
The future of Senegalese politics?
Ousmane Sonko is 44 years old. He finished third in Senegal's March 2019 presidential election, energizing young voters.
Eritrea’s diplomatic offensive?
An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?
South Africa’s Third Way revival
Economies are broken everywhere, but while the rest of the world considers the radical, South Africa resigns itself to the rational.
Indignity and solidarity are being televised in Algeria
Update from Algiers on the protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's plans to run for a fifth term in office.