Politics
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.
“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.
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.
Africans Migrate in Africa All the Time
The majority of African migrants move between countries on the continent.
Beyond the International Criminal Court
The possibilities and limitations of the ICC to contribute to our collective struggles and how we conceive of justice itself.
Botswana: African miracle or African mirage?
Botswana is usually held up as an exception on the African continent for good economic and political governance. Is this a fair assessment?
The point of no return in Ethiopia
Whatever we make of the Ethiopian government’s prevarication, the Irreechaa Massacre was a point of no return for the people.
Profits and bleeding hearts
We speak to an aid worker and trade unionist at the forefront of campaigns to halt the transnational corporate education reform movement.
The idea of a mass pullout of African states from the ICC
Why is South Africa withdrawing from the International Criminal Court? And why now? And what does it mean for African states' participation in the court.
On the brink of peace
Colombia needs to be able to envision another country beyond the reincarnation of our memories of war.