Nelson Mandela and the revolutionaries
The ANC and Nelson Mandela’s turn to violent anticolonial struggle in the early 1960s, is the subject of a new book by historian of South Africa, Paul Landau.
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The Deportation Deal
Paul Kagame and Benjamin Netanyahu are enablers of each other’s worst behavior, whether providing cover for each other's domestic policies or how Israel treats African migrants and refugees.
Kwame Nkrumah and decolonial imagination
Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism's shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements.
Scripted reality in Eritrea
The ruling regime in Eritrea manipulates news and information to gain total control over its citizens.
The gentrification of African studies
Displacing African Studies outside of Africa and emptying it of transformative potential, obscures its revolutionary legacy. The result: an impotent, banal field.
Donald Trump’s Africa policy
The involvement of far right and conservative think tanks in developing Trump's Africa agenda.
Drawing the wrong lessons from Magufuli’s rule in Tanzania
The Tanzania government's brand of heavy-handed state intervention risks fueling skepticism about the role of the state in development.
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
The problem of African countries' memberships to multiple regional bodies? There's no problem.
Frankenstein’s monster in Khartoum
On Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemitti, the man behind the massacres against Sudanese protesters.
This is my country
The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.
We are all Sudanese
A new film explores the perspectives of Sudanese-American artists navigating their relationships and responsibilities to the revolution back home.
Murder as order
The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?
The problem with generalizations
Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.
Kenya is Europe’s dumpsite
On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.
Mo Ibrahim does not have all the answers
The Mo Ibrahim Prize rewards African presidents for promoting democracy. But there's no proof the prize has had any effect or that it is needed.
There was no Green Revolution
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa was presented as a game-changer to address hunger. The consensus 15 years later: It failed.
An uncompromising criticism of the CFA franc
The CFA franc, pegged to a strong Euro, penalizes African economies as well as regional trade and facilitates the development of Western multinationals.
Africa holds up a mirror to India
Shobana Shankar's new book, 'Africa, India and the Spectre of Race' (Hurst/Oxford, 2021) explores this complicated history.
The (African) Arab Cup
Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.
War and no peace in Southern Cameroons
The longue duree of the conflict in the Southern Cameroons, the rise of the current Ambazonian movement, as well as the dismal prospects for conflict resolution.