• Michela Wrong

In this interview with Rasna Warah, journalist Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid.

• Magnus Godvik Ekeland

Why are South African government policies benefiting black mothers still controversial?

• Liz Timbs

The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

• Ayanda Kota

Corruption is South Africa’s pandemic—one that has been disenfranchising and killing people long before our transition to democracy.

• Theodore Powers

What would happen if people could transform state policy based on the principle of social justice? The AIDS struggle in South Africa has some lessons.

• Hadas Thier

Just ten nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind.

• Sakiru Adebayo

In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

• George Njung

Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.

• Michaela Collord

Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.

• William Shoki

Looking beyond the West to understand how to manage pandemics without choosing between saving lives or livelihoods. Live on YouTube Tuesday. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Lateef K. Jakande, also known as Baba Kekere, was the first civilian governor of Nigeria’s Lagos State.

• Dami Adebayo

Could the enduring effects of #EndSARS be the beginning of a broad alliance against an irresponsible political elite that has shirked all pretensions of being responsible to the people?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.

• Kalundi Serumanga

The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Lessons on radical politics from a 1970s political-cultural icon. Rawlings also dominated and shaped Ghanaian politics through the 1980s and 1990s.

• Kwamchetsi Makokha

In a Kenya coping with COVID-19 restrictions, circumcision season presents an impossible choice between tradition and civil obedience.

• Dauti Kahura
• Akoko Akech

Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, wants to be president. He projects himself as a go-getter. But there is a more sinister story behind his hustler narrative.

• Benjamin Fogel

South Africans are learning the hard way that corruption cannot simply be solved through technical fixes and increasing “accountability” through locking the villains up.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

New Zealand's Prime Minister is a very nice centrist. People in the rest of the world, including Africans, calling for her to be emulated should be careful what they wish for.

• Brooks Marmon

Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.