Lagos street boys
Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.
Youth
Sankara is not dead
Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.
Study notes on Nigeria’s youth revolt
Was the #EndSARS protests a victory or a defeat for the country's popular masses?
Hustler mentality
Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, wants to be president. He projects himself as a go-getter. But there is a more sinister story behind his hustler narrative.
Ubaguzi wa vijana na mapambano ya kijamii
Vijana masikini wa jiji la Nairobi wanachukuliwa kama wahalifu kwa ajili ya vurugu za mfumo ambazo zinawanyima ajira, haki na uhuru.
Most of the friends I grew up with are dead
How poor urban youth in Nairobi are criminalized by systemic violence that denies them jobs, justice, and freedoms.
The Green Generation
Why we need to make climate action our daily duty.
Burkina Faso: Nothing will be as it was before
October 30 marks the 5th anniversary of the start of Burkina Faso's October 2014 insurrection. We revisit and assess those events.
Senegalese activists persevere despite setback
Beyond national elections, the Y’en a Marre political movement is changing Senegalese civic and political life for future generations.
The new South African stoner comedy
The new comedy 'Matwetwe' hits all the right chords to tell a story about the current place and time of South African youth.
Meditating on youth in Mogadishu
In Somalia young people are the majority, yet have to act and perform “age"—appear older—to succeed or get anywhere in life.
Everything must fall
Fees Must Fall (#FMF) brought student activism at South Africa's elite universities into the global media spotlight. A new documentary zooms in on the case of Wits in Johannesburg.
Two trips to Juba
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.
The Ghetto President of Uganda
Bobi Wine, building off political protest of the last decade, has become a symbol for a new politics in Uganda.
And what for future generations in Sierra Leone?
In Sierra Leone, politicians make promises to youth in exchange for support in elections, but they rarely deliver. This must change.
Temple run or stay?
For young people in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, there is a code for the perilous journey that they are making to Europe via Libya.
By the light of the arrivals gate
Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies
The Fourth Way
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, knows young people in Congo want him gone.
New Muslim Youth Culture
Hisham Aidi’s book ‘Rebel Music' remixes race, faith, and geography
Angola’s Flash Mobs
Should the tipping point against the MPLA - in power since independence - arrive in Angola, there are some activists ready to hit the ground, running.