Not waiting for a savior
The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.
Governance
The emptiness of anti-corruption politics
This week on AIAC: Wangui Kimari and Benjamin Fogel on the politics of anti-corruption, and then the particular case of Tanzania with Sabatho Nyamsenda and Elisa Greco. Subscribe to our Patreon for the podcast archive.
The soft, patriarchal underbelly of Kenya’s Parliament
Kenya's 2010 Constitution put limits on men's dominance of public institutions, including parliament. Since then, men have done everything to sabotage it, but also to scrap it altogether.
A seca quando chove
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
Building a revolutionary party in Nigeria
On the second anniversary of Nigeria’s African Action Congress party, it is time to take stock of its track record and political prospects.
How to govern Angola
The make-believe consensus built around local government elections continues as always to ignore the views and expectations of Angolans. But the people are organizing.
O desafio da governação autárquica em Angola
O consenso aparente construído pelo regime em torno das eleições autárquicas continua, como sempre, a ignorar as opiniões e expectativas dos angolanos. Mas a juventude angolana está a mobilizar-se.
Our turn to eat
Reflections on Malawi’s recent election rerun, false starts and the hope that public representatives in Africa become accountable to their electorates’ aspirations.
The rising lakes of the Rift Valley
How climate change is threatening lives in Kenya.
Eritrea’s deteriorating state
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
The violence in Ethiopia
The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism.
Nigeria’s faltering anti-corruption war
The recent suspension of Nigeria’s anti-corruption tsar provides an opportunity to re-assess the country's anti-corruption approach.
Missing datasets
African societies are failing to systematically capture the true impact of COVID-19.
Race, caste and Kamala
Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.
No one is coming to save us
The government of Zimbabwe has decided it does not care whether Zimbabweans live or die.
Herman Mashaba wants you to forget
When considering Herman Mashaba’s new political plans, the South African public must reckon with the former mayor of Johannesburg's actual record.
Khartoum’s lockdown
In Sudan's capital, security forces arbitrarily enforce a haphazard lockdown.
Goodbye Annar Cassam
Chambi Chachage’s tribute to Annar Cassam, assistant to late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and a key figure in anti-colonial movements.
Kenya’s electoral authoritarianism
The former Chief Justice of Kenya on why only a popular movement to defend the constitution can counter corruption and inequality.