• Benjamin Fogel

What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?

• Leiyo Singo

The misguided rhetoric of Tanzanian President John Magufuli guides the country's response to COVID-19.

• 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.

• Tania Adam

Paranoia is my friend since, as Achille Mbembe says, “the pandemic democratizes the power to kill; now we all have the power to kill.”

• Francis Valentine Garikayi

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

• Khalifa Said

Sugar has become the new gold in Tanzania as prices for the commodity soar and stocks vanish.

• Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
• Loren B Landau

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.

• 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?

• Gautam Bhatia

Why courts should not become a country’s sole moral arbiter, how the coronavirus impacted judicial processes in India and South Africa, and more.

• Zemdena Abebe

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

• Winslow Robertson

The recent news of evictions and mistreatment of African students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic is rooted in a history of violence and discrimination.

• Zachary Mondesire

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

• 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.

• Andries du Toit

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.

• Stacey Links

COVID-19 exposes the continued inability of most white South Africans to critically reflect on privilege or engage constructively about the handling of the pandemic.

• William Shoki

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

• 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.