Destroying public trust during a pandemic
Few things are going on as normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, political dysfunction in Lesotho continues, with negative ramifications for Basotho.
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Tales of a civilized slavery
Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.
Collective action, “liberation,” and Tanzania’s working poor
How can a fragmented and precarious working class unite against exploitative labor relations and, in the process, transform them?
Praying through the pandemic
Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.
Reading List: Dionne Searcey
The author and journalist shares a reading list from her time as The New York Times' Bureau Chief for West Africa.
The need for a people-driven response to the coronavirus pandemic
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, African governments should stop seeing non-governmental actors as a threat to their own legitimacy.
The devil coronavirus
With their government obsessed more with control of information than COVID-19 itself, Tanzanians are bracing for the worst.
The world has lost a giant of development economics
Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) bravely stood up for social policies and the developmental state.
Death’s new rules
Coronavirus will force all of us to grapple with a new sense of mortality.
A jaula de aço do Presidente João Lourenço
Preocupado em atrair investimentos estrangeiros e combater à corrupção ao administrar uma divisão no partido no poder, o presidente angolano João Lourenço ignora o seu aliado mais forte: a sociedade civil jovem.
President João Lourenço’s iron cage
Preoccupied with attracting foreign investment and fighting corruption while managing a split in the ruling party, the Angolan president João Lourenço ignores his strongest ally: youthful civil society.
At the limits of inequality discourse
Race reductionism is stunting the possibility for radical change in an ever unequal South Africa.