
A cycle of diminishing expectations
South Africans are learning the hard way that corruption cannot simply be solved through technical fixes and increasing “accountability” through locking the villains up.
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South Africans are learning the hard way that corruption cannot simply be solved through technical fixes and increasing “accountability” through locking the villains up.

The make-believe consensus built around local government elections continues as always to ignore the views and expectations of Angolans. But the people are organizing.

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

O consenso aparente construído pelo regime em torno das eleições autárquicas continua, como sempre, a ignorar as opiniões e expectativas dos angolanos. Mas a juventude angolana está a mobilizar-se.

How race came to function as fuel to an exploitative economic system. Take the case of South Africa.

Ordinary working-class people have been forced to the belief that there can never actually be real solutions; stripped of the confidence that fundamental change can happen.

Climate negotiations have repeatedly floundered on the unwillingness of rich countries, but let's hope their own increasing vulnerability instills greater solidarity.

African health workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system — not applause.

What lessons can we learn for today from the 2008-09 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe?

This crisis has further emphasized the neglect of Kenya’s poor by the government, and is therefore “a wake up call that we are on our own.”

Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.

The revival of an elite technocratic rationality is starting to undo South Africa's lockdown, now in its second month.

What do we gain by exposing the material shortcomings of African health systems?

The dire, often fatal, conditions that African, and in this case specifically Kenyan, domestic workers are facing in the Middle East.

The irony of preaching social distancing to those living in close urban dwellings in Lagos exposes the crass nature of class disparities in Nigeria.

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?

With Kenya in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform really a priority?

Are we capable of rediscovering that each of us belongs to the same species, that we have an indivisible bond with all life?

The stories of African immigrants to the United States tell vivid tales of unimaginable anti-Blackness through foreign terrains.

What do we know about the potential for new kinds of social movements in South Africa?