African story time
George Clooney and John Prendergast's simple story about African conflict breeds ineffective solutions.
Politics
The Angolan regime’s least favorite journalist
Despite the political reforms by Angola’s government, the harassment of anti-corruption journalist Rafael Marques continues.
The peculiar nostalgia for the former Bantustans in South Africa
Some South Africans are looking back on the apartheid era's Bantustan homelands with reverence. Here is why.
And what for future generations in Sierra Leone?
In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.
#MeToo, Africa too?
Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?
The Afghanistan-ization of Africa
Most people are unaware that U.S. troops are active in almost every African country.
Addressing the genocide in Namibia
It took almost 110 years for Germany to accept the fact of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1908.
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
When Rex Tillerson toured some of Africa’s “shithole” countries
Right before he was fired, outgoing US Secretary of State visited six African countries. Here's why.
One Percent Feminism
Neoliberalism's model of social justice: the rich prosper, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or women.
Burkina Faso and the realization that it is possible to win
Burkina Faso is a rare recent instance of a popular movement that managed to directly topple a sitting government.
A record Congo doesn’t want
More Congolese are displaced from their homes than Iraqis, Yemenis, or Rohingyas. according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Does China have the power to change governments in Africa?
That China influences 'regime change' in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.
Liberia’s stress test for democracy
The question since the return to civilian rule in Liberia has been how quickly its fragmented institutions could be rebuilt.
Sex work on the other side of the sea
Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don't focus on migrant women's motives.
Germany’s crimes
Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.
When is a coup a coup?
The African Union has made it a policy to challenge unconstitutional transitions of power. Why not in Zimbabwe?
Cape Town’s exceptionalism
Cape Town has always been like other African cities in how it treats its poorer, black, residents. The water crisis just amplifies these divides.
Doing the Ramaphosa Shuffle
South Africa's President carries much hope. But fundamental change requires he radically restructures the state and the economy.
After Morgan Tsvangirai — the future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's splintered opposition appears poised to be out-maneuvered by the ruling ZANU-PF in elections later this year.