Cold sweats and furtive listening in Angola
Historian Marissa Moorman wrote an important book about radio and modern state power.
Governance
Democracy and the left in post-apartheid South Africa
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.
Bittersweet Swazi sugar
How the highly profitable rural-based sugar industry failed the people of Swaziland and enriched the King and multinational corporations.
South Africa’s Third Way revival
Economies are broken everywhere, but while the rest of the world considers the radical, South Africa resigns itself to the rational.
The politics of a coup d’etat
Race and geopolitics in the 1966 coup d'etat that overthrew Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
Ebola: Where we are; where we should be
Is it coincidental that nation-states just emerging from brutal civil wars cannot cope with Ebola because of their broken institutions?
What’s the matter with Morocco
Morocco appears stable, but high unemployment, economic reforms, increased repression and police brutality, could still impact the country's politics.
Joyce Banda is President of Malawi
In her first order of business since being inaugurated as Malawi’s new president on Saturday, Joyce
Gandhi in Somalia
A mild mannered historian and anthropologist takes over as President of an autonomous Somali republic.