
The liberation stories of Guinea Bissau
Amilcar Cabral is a household name. But what happened to the young women like Joana Gomes who helped lead Guinea Bissau’s independence struggle?
Amilcar Cabral is a household name. But what happened to the young women like Joana Gomes who helped lead Guinea Bissau’s independence struggle?
An excerpt of an essay, titled “Nongoloza’s Ghost,” in Lapham’s Quarterly. It's published in partnership with Africa Is a Country.
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Black Americans are not a unified voting bloc, and it is time to start paying attention.
The demise of Alassane Ouattara’s presidency in Cote d’Ivoire.
In a ruling party-dominated Tanzania, opposition parties are flawed but remain critically important.
What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?
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.
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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.