The margins of urban life in Angola
In Angola, the poor are not entitled to full citizenship rights. They also are the base of resistance to the regime.
Informal
Zombie statistics and poverty porn
Two sides of the same e-waste documentary.
The meaning of party politics in Ghana’s urban neighborhoods
Why do so many of the urban poor support John Mahama and Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress?
Africans are largely on their own facing climate change
What the response to #CycloneIdai tells us about Zimbabweans’ relationship to the state and each other.
Ethiopia’s capitalist turn
In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.
The politics of reforming traditional land in South Africa
Land reform in South Africa has to not only tackle racial inequalities of ownership, but also the power of chiefs and the Zulu royal family.
The struggle for a minimum wage in Nigeria
Negotiations for a minimum wage put Nigeria's trade unions at the front of poor people's struggles.
Limping towards irrelevance
How can South Africa's biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?
The contemporary state of Ethiopia
2018 witnessed a fundamental shift in how Ethiopia's ruling party governs. How did it come about, what is incomplete about this transition, and what happens next.
The Rise Neoliberalism in Ghana
To address high unemployment in Ghana, “labor experts” foolishly present volunteerism as the way out of poverty and joblessness.
What is Uber up to in Africa?
Uber’s usual tricks -- to provoke price wars in an attempt to increase their share of markets, evade taxes, and undermine workers’ rights -- are alive and well in Africa.
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
Let them occupy
Housing struggles Brazil are a good case study to help us understand the limits of what is possible for urban housing movements in South Africa.
The water point
The author returns to her home town, Cape Town, which may soon become the world’s first major city to run out of water. The crisis also exacerbates old divisions.
Do informal workers’ lives matter?
What is the death of a pregnant informal fish seller in Dakar to the suffering of sweatshop workers in Bangladesh or refugees at the borders of Europe?
My people them dey stay for poor surroundings
For Nigeria, the World Bank reported that as of 2015, 48% of the total population (estimated at more than 180 million) reside in urban centers.
The Other Afripolitans
Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.