The lost heritage of emergency relief
Local traditions of crisis management have largely been shed along the path to “development.” The age of COVID-19 is the time to recover them.
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Financing Africa’s COVID-19 response
We need swift, bold, and decisive action on debt relief and monetary creation in Africa in order to face the coronavirus crisis and prevent many ordinary Africans from paying with their lives.
The missing 27 billion
Governments need funds for stimulus packages and aid to address COVID-19. But corporate tax avoidance and tax breaks for aid in African countries is undermining emergency responses.
Keep the phones on
COVID-19 presents an unprecedented threat, but a campaign by South Africa's security forces attempting to grind defenseless people into dust does not guarantee success.
The book of his life
Father's Day reflections for the time of COVID-19.
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ protests
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
Food is power
The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famineof biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food hasnever just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Foodis identity.
Excavating Kazi Mataani
In the second video from our Capitalism In My City project, Dennis Esikuri talks to everyday Nairobians about the current employment opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.
A Black woman in Bali
During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?
A brief history of anti-black violence in China
The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination.
COVID-19 and teacher education in rural Ghana
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.
Feminists organizing offline in Africa
On the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) based in Kenya.
South Africa’s morbid symptoms
In South Africa, the old endures and the new is nowhere to be seen. What is to be done? Public intellectual Steven Friedman helps us make sense.
The business of Black death
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
To fight unemployment we have to fight capitalism
Three activists from the Assembly of the Unemployed talk to us about the challenges facing working-class communities in South Africa.
In the company of coronavirus
What literature can teach us about what happens when the chain that connects human beings to nature is broken.
Can a virus accelerate change in Africa?
African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?
On Safari
What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.
Not waiting for a savior
The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.
Tips from the apocalypse
Speculative fiction by writers from Africa explore viral apocalypses. What can we learn from art on catastrophe?