It’s only business
How private education companies ruin education in Kenya: Private education companies have sought to cash in on the development game.
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The Nelson Chamisa chimera in Zimbabwe
While entertaining, the showy presidential campaign of Zimbabwe's opposition may not amount to much on July 30th.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Dambisa Moyo is wrong about the global economy – here’s why
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe.
Back in the USSR
In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.
The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
Marikana and the end of South African exceptionalism
South Africa's problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.
Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
Rwanda’s £30 million Arsenal sleeve
The Arsenal 'Visit Rwanda' sponsorship deal is government image management 101.
The idea of a borderless world
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.
The silences about capitalism in Africa
Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.
The most powerful currency today
Passport privilege remains an entirely unaddressed, unsustainable inequity, and the most consistently overlooked factor that defines every single immigration debate and "crisis" of movement and migration.
Albert Luthuli, MLK and global human rights
Albert Luthuli was ANC President when South Africa's biggest liberation movement turned to armed struggle. He's been the subject of much conjecture. What did he actually think about political violence?
Will Kenya’s courts let gay people live?
Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.
The politics of a coup d’etat
Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d'etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Diagnosing neopatrimonialism
It's been very difficult to pin down what political scientists, who favor the term, mean when they talk about patrimonialism or neopatrimonialism.
The politics of ethical deception
If in India there has been an investment in myth of Mohandas Gandhi as a non-racial icon, in South Africa Gandhi also has his defenders.
The falsification of history
The charge that Mohandas Gandhi was a racist is doing the rounds again. His stay in colonial South Africa fuels those claims.
After the scramble
It's time to return Africa's vinyl records.
I, Surya
The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.