• William Shoki

As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.

• Dauti Kahura

Uhuru Kenyatta's political war against his deputy president and supposed ally, William Ruto.

• Mwongela Kamencu

Government money, artistic freedom, and integrity in Kenya in the time of COVID-19.

• Darryl Chanakira
• Joseph Mujere

Traditional chiefs and the politics of labor recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry.

• 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 Lázaro

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.