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.
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The politics of vaccines
On the latest episode of AIAC TV, we discuss the COVID 19 vaccine with Achal Prabhala and Indira Govender. Watch now on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
Feminists organizing offline in Africa
On the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) based in Kenya.
Masks off
The revival of an elite technocratic rationality is starting to undo South Africa's lockdown, now in its second month.
Ending the polarization around South Africa’s lockdown
In South Africa, we are not in a situation where we need to choose between saving lives and protecting livelihoods. It is far worse. We are in danger of losing both.
Predisposed to chaos
What do we gain by exposing the material shortcomings of African health systems?
The class character of police violence
Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?
Place matters
If COVID-19 teaches us anything, it is that the virus has no boundaries, and the well-being of both rich and poor are co-dependent. What we do about that matters.
Face-me-I-face-you
The irony of preaching social distancing to those living in close urban dwellings in Lagos exposes the crass nature of class disparities in Nigeria.
Khartoum’s lockdown
In Sudan's capital, security forces arbitrarily enforce a haphazard lockdown.
What Chinese people eat
News reports claiming that “wet markets” in Asia are the source of the coronavirus obscure the fact that the consumption of wild animals is common in the West.
Eritrea’s deteriorating state
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
Like an infant in a suffocating hold
The stories of African immigrants to the United States tell vivid tales of unimaginable anti-Blackness through foreign terrains.
Neocolonization on a plate, with a soda to go
The risk of obesity increases with socioeconomic status in several African countries, unlike in their European counterparts with comparable income levels.
Traditional wars
With Kenya in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform really a priority?
Vaccine apartheid
Just ten nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind.
The reluctant scientist
The late Tanzanian president, John Pombe Magufuli, was initially lauded for his no-nonsense approach to corruption. But the cracks began to appear within months of his presidency.
Exit the bulldozer, enter Mama Samia
Has the recent death of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli created new political possibilities?
Capitalism is a disease
Anyone who lives in fear of getting sick exists in a state of unfreedom.
The demobilization of the South African masses
What do we know about the potential for new kinds of social movements in South Africa?