The Arabs had a country
No figure in the Arab world embodies the ideals and contradictions of Pan-Arabism more than Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Politics
‘Doing good’ in an age of parody
Why does being in on the joke not slow down the desire to save Africans?
The struggle for moral authority in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
The Trump Card
Denis Sassou Nguesso's embarrassing attempt to ingratiate himself to Donald Trump.
The armed conflict lurking in the countryside
The protests against Congolese President Joseph Kabila in cities like Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, only reveal part
Yahya Jammeh’s tribalism
How the Jammeh regime reproduced power in Gambia for more than two decades.
Kenya’s greatest virtue
Can African states offer new approaches to refugee asylum?
The Fourth Way
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, knows young people in Congo want him gone.
Making Europe White… Again
Zygmunt Bauman, the renowned Polish sociologist, calls them the emergent precariat. Shaken by the false promises
Kabila’s impasse
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.
What happens in the DRC after December 19th
The presidential term of Joseph Kabila, in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2001,
“I will become a straight girl”
Almost four out of five men in South Africa surveyed had raped their first victim before the age of twenty.
The grapes of wrath
“For me personally, it seems as if modern day slavery is practiced on many farms, and
Is your mobile phone company seeing like a state?
How phones change the terrain on which Kenyans can make claims for services, redistribution, and recognition.
Many Missing Bodies
The many extra-judicial executions that happen in the poor, and predominantly, eastern urban settlements of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Do informal workers’ lives matter?
What is the death of a pregnant informal fish seller in Dakar to the suffering of sweatshop workers in Bangladesh or refugees at the borders of Europe?
The myth of Trump’s white working-class support
The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.
Shutting Down Dadaab Endangers Refugees
Those, mostly Somalis, born in Dadaab, since its creation in 1991, could be sent to a country they have never known.
All you need to know about Ghana’s December 2016 elections
We asked a group of experts--journalists, academics and an architect--a bunch of questions about the elections. First: Does it matter whoever Ghanaians elect as president?
The Match for Occupation
Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara.