• 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.