• Benjamin Fogel

What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?

• Florian Bobin

Once you've exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.

• Leiyo Singo

The misguided rhetoric of Tanzanian President John Magufuli guides the country's response to COVID-19.

• Andries du Toit

In South Africa, we are not in a situation where we need to choose between saving lives and protecting livelihoods. It is far worse. We are in danger of losing both.

• Stacey Links

COVID-19 exposes the continued inability of most white South Africans to critically reflect on privilege or engage constructively about the handling of the pandemic.

• William Shoki

The revival of an elite technocratic rationality is starting to undo South Africa's lockdown, now in its second month.

• Dami Adebayo

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.

• Khalifa Said

NGOs have been notably absent in the fight against COVID-19, despite claims they exist solely to ensure accountability and transparency by government.

• Lionel Zevounou
• Amy Niang
• Ndongo Samba Sylla

More than 90 African intellectuals wrote an open letter to African leaders about the continent’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Gilad Isaacs

South Africa's R50bn ($26bn) rescue package is 10% of its GDP. It is a major step forward, but some warning lights are flashing.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, social distancing to bring down COVID-19 infections takes a decidedly local shape. In a racialized society, it manifests primarily as white melancholia and black Afro-pessimism.

• Laureen Akoa Wesonga

Kenyans are split about the legacy of president Daniel Arap Moi, who served from 1978 to 2002 and died on 4 February 2020: Vile and reprehensible vs a benign Baba, history suggests the latter.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

Few things are going on as normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, political dysfunction in Lesotho continues, with negative ramifications for Basotho.

• Patrick Gathara

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, African governments should stop seeing non-governmental actors as a threat to their own legitimacy.

• Khalifa Said

With their government obsessed more with control of information than COVID-19 itself, Tanzanians are bracing for the worst.

• Gilson Lazaro

Preocupado em atrair investimentos estrangeiros e combater à corrupção ao administrar uma divisão no partido no poder, o presidente angolano João Lourenço ignora o seu aliado mais forte: a sociedade civil jovem.

• Gilson Lazaro

Preoccupied with attracting foreign investment and fighting corruption while managing a split in the ruling party, the Angolan president João Lourenço ignores his strongest ally: youthful civil society.

• Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui

Guinea, more than ever, needs an inclusive debate not only on the function of the state, but also on the nature of our institutions and therefore the very state of the republic.

• Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui

La Guinée a plus que jamais besoin d’un débat inclusif non seulement sur le fonctionnement de l’état mais aussi sur la nature de nos institutions et donc l’état même de la république. Je vous propose quelques raisons.

• Jessica Moody

Au crépuscule du règne de Ouattara en Côte d’Ivoire.