• Fiori Berhane

In an agreement between the EU and African countries, refugees held at sea in the Mediterranean cannot claim rights to asylum. They are forever in limbo.

• Francis Valentine Garikayi

What happened to the once universally accepted idea of healthcare for all?

• George Kibala Bauer

The "Africa needs help" vs. "No! Africa can teach you lessons!" is tiring. Other than benefiting a few pundits, are we deriving any value from it?

• Zemdena Abebe

In Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, a partial COVID-19 lockdown has increased domestic violence, but women are not turning to shelters.

• Francisco Perez

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.

• Dami Adebayo

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.

• Abdou Rahim Lema

Recent racist incidents in China are just a manifestation of deeply rooted attitudes vis-à-vis "blackness" in China that predate and will outlive COVID-19.

• Indira Govender

Why we need randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to find the best ways to treat COVID-19.

• Khalifa Said

NGOs have been notably absent in the fight against COVID-19, despite claims they exist solely to ensure accountability and transparency by government.

• Liam James Kingsley

COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.

• Lebohang Liepollo Pheko

The South African government's COVID-19 "rescue plan" is an opportunity to rethink its economic model, if it can break with market orthodoxy.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Demolishing homes of poor residents in Accra while under lockdown, tells us all we need to know about the Ghanaian state's treatment of working class people.

• P. Wenzel Geissler
• Ruth J. Prince

COVID-19 spreads from Europe to Africa, inverting colonial imaginaries of African disease and challenging inherited hierarchies.

• Paul Fargues
• Aline Deschamps

Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.

• James Caunt

The arrival of coronavirus in the Comoros Islands has seen a disruption of informal migration routes and the unequal power relationship between the archipelago's islands.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

There is a disconcerting resemblance between how some Senegalese talk about homosexuality and how they discuss COVID-19.

• Gilad Isaacs

South Africa's R50bn ($26bn) rescue package is 10% of its GDP. It is a major step forward, but some warning lights are flashing.

• Sam Broadway

Will the coronavirus pandemic extend Museveni’s authoritarianism or the lockdown instead provide openings for Uganda’s opposition?

• Jonathan Crush

While COVID-19 hasn't yet hit African cities as hard as those in the global North, it will eventually likely penetrate deep into the countryside where the most vulnerable live and where health facilities are rudimentary.

• Theo Borgvin-Weiss

Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.