
How to steal a country
Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.

Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.

The art world largely Isabel dos Santos’s husband despite him being caught up in large scale corruption.

The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.

How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.

The rise of populism across the US and Western Europe has been well documented, but it is not only an American or European issue. The case of Lesotho.

Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.

Where did UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, get the idea Nigeria and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries worldwide and the UK was squeaky clean?


Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.


Does the arrest of Karim Wade, the former president's son, mean “the time when one could pillage public goods is over” in Senegal?

The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.

When the Financial Times commits an entire article to topics Angolan, it fills my Google news alert for a week.