• Celia Breuer

The future of Kenya's matatus (commuter buses) and their inherent place in the capital Nairobi's culture and society, is all but absent in the government's neoliberal vision for urban planning.

• Jostein Løhr Hauge
• Vincent Hardy

Labour challenges in Ethiopia's industrialization.

• Beatriz Ramalho da Silva

In Angola, the poor are not entitled to full citizenship rights. They also are the base of resistance to the regime.

• Maja van der Velden

Two sides of the same e-waste documentary.

• Jeffrey W. Paller

Why do so many of the urban poor support John Mahama and Ghana's opposition National Democratic Congress?

• Shannon Morreira

What the response to #CycloneIdai tells us about Zimbabweans’ relationship to the state and each other.

• Stephanie Jay

In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.

• Sindiso Mnisi Weeks

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.

• Camilla Houeland

Negotiations for a minimum wage put Nigeria's trade unions at the front of poor people's struggles.

• Russell Grinker

How can South Africa's biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, remain relevant in the face of declining membership and a failing formal economy?

• Elizabeth W. Giorgis

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.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

To address high unemployment in Ghana, “labor experts” foolishly present volunteerism as the way out of poverty and joblessness.

• Camilla Houeland

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.

• Morten Bøås
• Daivi Rodima-Taylor

The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.

• Benjamin H. Bradlow

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.

• C.A. Davids

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.

• Aïda Ndiaye

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?

• Olukayode Alao

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.

• Boima Tucker

Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.