• Mbaye Bashir Lo

France is not a new problem for Africa. Since the 19th century, its stood in the way of the continent’s self-determination.

• Gelila Enbaye

Recent violence across the Eritrean diaspora is being instrumentalized by populists. But the violence is a desperate cry for attention and requires the Eritrean opposition to seize the moment for regime change.

• Claire-Anne Lester

In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.

• Dauti Kahura

In Kenya, elected office does not represent a duty to represent ordinary citizens, but an opportunity for personal enrichment.

• Abdul Tejan-Cole

Held in Nairobi this month, the inaugural Africa Climate Summit is an important step for the continent’s response to climate change. Still, the disasters in Libya and Morocco underscore that rhetoric and declarations are not enough.

• Jill E. Kelly

That South African political parties across the spectrum were quick to venerate the politician and Zulu prince Mangosutho Buthelezi, who died last week, demonstrates that the country is still attached to Bantustan ideology.

• Anna S. Reumert

A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli.

• Siyabulela Mama
• Antony Martel

The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.

• Anselm Kizza-Besigye

Western leftists are arguing among themselves about whether there will be bananas under socialism. In Africa, however, bananas do not necessarily represent the vagaries of capitalism.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

• Raga Makawi

Since 2019, two separate political processes developed simultaneously in Sudan: one at the state level and the other at the grassroots. Today’s war originates in the predominance of the former over the latter.

• Polo B. Moji

In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.

• Shreya Parikh

The pathologization of ‘migrants’ in Tunisia and France shows how race and poverty shape our understanding of belonging.

• Mustapha Saha

The reaction to Nahel Merzouk’s murder by the French state showcases its tactic of depoliticizing the suburban uprising and diverting attention away from state violence.

• Frank Gerits

After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States were not only locked in an ideological struggle with each other, but also competed with an anticolonial vision of modernity, an ideology which is still influential today.

• Amber Sweat

The state-sanctioned violence committed against children such as Nahel M forces us to revisit the very question of childhood, its privileges, and its roots in the French imperialization of Africa.

• The Senegalese Feminist Network

In Senegal, women's bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.

• William Shoki

What’s at stake in Sierra Leone’s elections on June 24? We discuss on this episode of the Africa Is a Country podcast.

• Matthew Goncalves O'Kelly

The conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique is entering its sixth year. To combat it, the government should address the underlying local grievances that are driving people toward it.

• Rachel Dubale

The planned demolition of one of Ethiopia’s most vibrant cultural centers forms part of an urban planning trend where African cities are re-designed to serve elites.