• Lebohang Liepollo Pheko

The South African government's COVID-19 "rescue plan" is an opportunity to rethink its economic model, if it can break with market orthodoxy.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Rama Salla Dieng

How young, African feminist scholars are using their life experiences as sources and resources for theorizing their feminism.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

Demolishing homes of poor residents in Accra while under lockdown, tells us all we need to know about the Ghanaian state's treatment of working class people.

• Rasna Warah

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.

• Camilla Houeland

African health workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applause.

• Shannon Brincat

The climate crisis, resource extraction, and the insurgency by a group claiming affiliation to ISIL in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.

• Paul Fargues
• Aline Deschamps

Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.

• Iriann Freemantle

The unprecedented distress of momentarily locked-down lives should prompt Europeans to realize how much their leadership curtails freedom of movement on a permanent basis on the African continent.

• Peter Hoffman

Efforts to introduce 'peacebuilding' as panacea to current trends in US military spending do little to shift the imperialist status quo.

• James Caunt

The arrival of coronavirus in the Comoros Islands has seen a disruption of informal migration routes and the unequal power relationship between the archipelago's islands.

• Lionel Zevounou
• Amy Niang
• Ndongo Samba Sylla

More than 90 African intellectuals wrote an open letter to African leaders about the continent’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Cedric Tolliver

Revisiting the clash of the American-born UN diplomat Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba in 1960 over the terms and timeliness of African colonies' independence from their European masters.

• Gilad Isaacs

South Africa's R50bn ($26bn) rescue package is 10% of its GDP. It is a major step forward, but some warning lights are flashing.

• Christopher J. Lee

Nelson Mandela's life teaches us that being quarantined is not the end of politics, but for the regeneration of politics.

• Sam Farrell

Malawi is experiencing a crisis over the legitimacy of the democratic state itself.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, social distancing to bring down COVID-19 infections takes a decidedly local shape. In a racialized society, it manifests primarily as white melancholia and black Afro-pessimism.

• Bulelani Jili

Relationships between African countries and China are more complex than they appear in the media and academia.

• Sam Broadway

Will the coronavirus pandemic extend Museveni’s authoritarianism or the lockdown instead provide openings for Uganda’s opposition?

• Laureen Akoa Wesonga

Kenyans are split about the legacy of president Daniel Arap Moi, who served from 1978 to 2002 and died on 4 February 2020: Vile and reprehensible vs a benign Baba, history suggests the latter.