Days of our lives: Kenya 2017 elections edition
Ordinary Kenyans are tired of the drama of party politics, and are hungry, job insecure and live under the threat of police bullets.
Politics
An economic strategy for The Gambia
This is the first opportunity for Gambians since independence in 1965 to have a broad-ranging public conversation on its future.
The benevolent great power
Opportunities like China’s One Belt One Road Initiative cannot simply be ignored, but should be engaged with critically.
Biafra and other ghosts
After nearly fifty years, the real impact of the Biafran war on Nigeria remains to be measured, free from political gamesmanship.
Take me to your leader: Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki
The author, in exile from Eritrea, attempts construct a profile of the country's longtime leader.
The moral imperative on South African farms
Yolanda Daniels is a domestic worker with three children. She has lived on a farm outside
The Coffin Revolution in Cameroon
Neither western or African media nor academic literature can afford to continue to erase or marginalize Anglophone Cameroon from the region’s present and history.
Reclaim the City
The Tafelberg site in Sea Point, a rich suburb of Cape Town, has come to symbolize
Le Pen vs. Macron: Implications for Africa
The real danger of an Emmanuel Macron victory is that, simply by virtue of not being Marine Le Pen, his policies will be treated as reasonable.
The African Union is now complete, but at what cost?
There is no doubt that the AU has the potential to be an important political actor but it faces severe limitations as a continental body.
The Spirit of Marikana
Marikana's workers were active agents in controlling their own destinies in the midst of plutocratic mine-owners and “pocket trade unions.”
Kenneth Kaunda and the national question
Was the 27 years of Kaunda's rule better for Zambians than the neoliberal governments that have ruled there since his departure in 1991?
Lessons from Kaundanomics
In Zambians' hurry to get rid themselves of President Kenneth Kaunda, they lost their way in the process.
How the Congo crisis reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire
South Africa needs a new public debate
Much of the criticism about neoliberalism is coming from the dominant faction of the ANC, the center-left party trying to hold onto power.
Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
Too deep for mere outrage
Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.
The “right” of white South Africans to be racist and offensive
Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa's defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.
What’s in an apology
President Emmanuel Macron's apology to Algerians over French colonialism us about presidential elections in France.