• Phethani Madzivhandila

On the other side of the pandemic, we must strengthen and build strong working-class movements to challenge imperialism and neocolonialism.

• Sam Meyerson

Burundian refugees in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda are enacting grassroots responses to COVID-19.

• Razaz H. Basheir

In Sudan's capital, security forces arbitrarily enforce a haphazard lockdown.

• Mitchell Edwards

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.

• Kwamchetsi Makokha

Regular Kenyans try to survive the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

• Siyabulela Mama
• Ayanda Kota
• Khokhoma Motsi

Three activists from the Assembly of the Unemployed talk to us about the challenges facing working-class communities in South Africa.

• Isaac Otidi Amuke

COVID-19 re-affirmed journalism is a public good, yet as newsrooms collapse, journalism is in danger.

• Kiasha Naidoo

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

• Ini Dele-Adedeji
• Ella Jeffreys

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

• Thomas Courtright

The parallels between COVID-19 and the 1910s in Kampala, when the colonial regime used a series of plagues to cut Ugandans out of the capital city.

• William Shoki

As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.

• Mwongela Kamencu

Government money, artistic freedom, and integrity in Kenya in the time of COVID-19.

• A. Kayum Ahmed

Africans can lead the charge to decolonize the profit-driven biomedical system by challenging European and American claims to prioritized access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

• Kim Gurney

When the usual rules no longer hold, like in a pandemic, we might find inspiration in the collectivities and working principles of artists.

• Boima Tucker

Father's Day reflections for the time of COVID-19.

• Eric Otieno

It will be survival for the fittest when the COVID-19 vaccine arrives. As it stands, relevant international regimes for its distribution are not in Africa’s favor.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system.

• Boukary Sawadogo

How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Achille Mbembe

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

• Carlos Lopes

African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?