Finding a way through the deluge in Zimbabwe
Public sector strikes place major pressure on the Zimbabwean state, but not enough to effect a meaningful national dialogue on the country's direction.
Public sector strikes place major pressure on the Zimbabwean state, but not enough to effect a meaningful national dialogue on the country's direction.
South Africa introduces a new law which allows traditional leaders along with third parties to decide for communities, without their consent.
Opposition parties, inequality, and the politics of failure in the Southern African region.
The island nation's celebrated political system was never a gift bestowed, but seized through sheer agency and hard-fought autonomy.
On the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) the organized force behind the revolutionary uprising in Sudan.
The Hirak, how the current contemporary liberation movement is known, gives Algerians a renewed sense of purpose.
Election meddling may have sullied the reputation of Senegal as a beacon of democracy in West Africa, but a popular opposition candidate is giving hope for a new wave of Pan-Africanism in the region.
Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?
The charge is "misusing a computer." Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison.
The outcome of the Algerian revolution should not be pre-determined by a (neo)liberal Euro-American global order. Listen to the people.
Why do so many of the urban poor support John Mahama and Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress?
Omar al Bashir has fallen in Khartoum. Beyond regime change—managed by the military—there's a deeper economic crisis.
Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d'etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
As Sudanese continue to chant “Just fall, that is all” against the regime, doctors pay a hefty price for standing with them.
After years of divide and rule by President Omar al-Bashir, the youth of Sudan have united to push him out.
Challenging the success narrative that masks the disruptive social impact of neoliberal transformation under General Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.
It's the first time an African president appears to have rigged an election, not in favor of his hand-picked successor, but in favor of an opposition politician.
Despite consistent and protracted attempts by government to repress access to social media and freedom of expression, citizen's voices are being heard over the internet in Cameroon.
Hyper-partisan politics and shallow journalism obscured the implications of the protests at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Caricatures aside, how do President Yoweri Museveni and the National Revolutionary Movement state reproduce power?