• Kari Mugo

The movement to #RejectFinanceBill2024 marks a new era in Kenyan politics after many years of discontent and political apathy.

• Rasna Warah

Kenyan youth are leading popular protests against regressive tax reforms that will worsen the country’s worsening cost of living crisis.

• Sushovan Dhar

The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.

• Niall Reddy

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.

• Raga Makawi

Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils.

• Sushovan Dhar

In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Marame Gueye

Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l'histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes.

• Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

With a coalition government likely after South Africa's elections in May, many are looking at the West for examples of coalition politics. South Africans, however, should look next door.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Caught between pro-West loyalists and anti-West populists, West Africa’s regional bloc has come apart.

• Florian Bobin

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise.

• Florian Bobin

Closed since June 2023, the University of Dakar has become a symbol of the collapse of Senegalese democracy.

• Daniel Paget

Anti-authoritarian struggles on the continent aren’t just fighting for democracy, but they are also reimagining it.

• Sanyaolu Juwon

Nigeria’s Labor Party lost its way when it abandoned socialism for social democracy. Still, it remains essential for the labor movement to be organized under a party of its own.

• William Shoki

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is running for a third term. On the Africa Is a Country podcast, we discuss what this means for the country.

• Raga Makawi

Since 2019, two separate political processes developed simultaneously in Sudan: one at the state level and the other at the grassroots. Today’s war originates in the predominance of the former over the latter.

• William Shoki

What’s at stake in Sierra Leone’s elections on June 24? We discuss on this episode of the Africa Is a Country podcast.

• Franklin Nossiter

Although Senegal’s protests are riven with contradictions, they testify to its people’s willingness to defend their democratic rights and freedoms.