• Gilson Lázaro

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.

• Rose Ndengue

Rémanences autoritaire, oligarchique et mâlecentrée de l’espace politique camerounais.

• Rose Ndengue

Authoritarianism, oligarchy, and patriarchy governs the Cameroonian political landscape.

• Moses E. Ochonu

What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?

• Brian Raftopoulos

Public sector strikes place major pressure on the Zimbabwean state, but not enough to effect a meaningful national dialogue on the country's direction.

• William Shoki

South Africa introduces a new law which allows traditional leaders along with third parties to decide for communities, without their consent.

• Jesse Bucher

Historian Marissa Moorman wrote an important book about radio and modern state power.

• Ben Turok

A veteran African National Congress stalwart and member of parliament speaks to Africa Is a Country about the party, South Africa's Parliament and the dearth of left politics in South Africa.

• Africa Is a Country

How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.

• William Shoki

Economies are broken everywhere, but while the rest of the world considers the radical, South Africa resigns itself to the rational.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d'etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.

• Ibrahim Abdullah

Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?

• Youssef Benlamlih

Morocco appears stable, but high unemployment, economic reforms, increased repression and police brutality, could still impact the country's politics. 

• Dan Moshenberg

• Abdourahman Waberi

A mild mannered historian and anthropologist takes over as President of an autonomous Somali republic.