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.
Youth
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.
Race and Elections in Brazil
Many Brazilian voters are so disillusioned with politics that in this traditionally left-leaning, post-right military dictatorship society, the right has made surprising gains in this election.
Mobile Music
For young musicians in Mozambique, "a career in music is a pipe dream." The project, Wired for Sound, wants to change that.
African Radio’s growing and enduring popularity
Growing numbers of radio stations, across the continent, are training young people to deliver news to their peers themselves.
The Dutch Media Drama
Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?
Kenya’s #purplezebra Spring
Political springs, as in social movements that topple and/or transform political regimes, occur when the youth
Do you need another rap film?
Do the foregrounding of celebrities and stories of human tragedy help or hurt two new films about hip hop in Uganda?
Postcard from Johannesburg
The photographer Krisanne Johnson believes you can learn many things about a country by the way youth live—from fashion to music to home environments.