• Thomas McNamara
• James Musonda

Zambia's mining unions increasingly focus on profit-generating businesses, at the expense of collective action.

• Abdallah S. Lubala

The secretary of a Tanzanian bus drivers' union explains why the system of privately owned commercial buses is breaking down. He proposes collective ownership.

• Gabeba Baderoon

There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.

• 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?

• Camilla Houeland

On International Workers’ Day, we provide a sweeping assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and potential of African trade unions.

• 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.

• Eddie Cottle

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?

• Tom Heinemann

• 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?

• Camilla Houeland

To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.

• Aaron Leaf

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."