Bottom-up hustling in Nairobi’s slums
Prevailing thoughts on slums stress their transitory character, but the complexity of everyday life in slums, including how people manage survival, is lost in the way they are understood from the outside.
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‘We are now treated the same as men. We have exactly the same rights’
How women farm workers in North Africa, specifically Morocco, are achieving justice on the job.
When teachers don’t get paid, we all lose
Teachers are undervalued around the world. The Lesotho teachers strike is yet another case to prove that point.
This is what a neoliberal trade union looks like
Zambia's mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.
Bus politics in Dar es Salaam
The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers' union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.
The creation of black criminality in South Africa
There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.
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?
On May Day, what is there to celebrate in Africa?
On International Workers’ Day, we provide a sweeping assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and potential of African trade unions.
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.
Is South African trade unionism at a turning point?
Does the gradual increase in the number of strikes indicate that a new wave of offensive strikes has begun? Or is it just a short-lived revival among a depressing long wave of defensive strikes?
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?
Labor protests in Swaziland: when no news is not good news
To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.
This is not your conventional film about Liberia
Most films about Liberia are feature films or gritty documentaries focus almost perversely on the horrors of the civil war. Not "Out of my hand."