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Africa Insiders: Is the Africa Union up to the continent’s challenges?
30 years to the day after Nelson Mandela stepped out of prison, his freedom a symbol of African self-determination and pan-African solidarity, the African Union is ...Freeing South Sudan’s captive women and girls: 128 down, thousands to go
The current approaches to releasing women and girls who have been forced into armed groups is far from adequate. In a significant development earlier this month, ...The performance of mourning Moi
Before he died, he was a disgraced former dictator. Since he died, he’s been lionised as an iconic Kenyan hero. How did this happen? On the ...UK convenes donors summit to raise funds for…itself
From the Wit-hole countries…is African Arguments’ satirical section. It’s the news, but absurd. It’s sometimes better than the real thing, sometimes not quite real, and sometimes ...Africa Insiders: Morocco slowly tightens its grip on Western Sahara
The essentials: Morocco’s parliament has passed two laws that formalise the annexation of Western Saharan territorial waters. While this does not present a fundamental change of ...
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There’s a lot of stigma around mental health, but we’re turning the tide
Often the bigger challenge in addressing mental illness in Africa is not the illness itself but the false stories society has told us about ... -
We need to talk about Ghana’s Year of Return and its politics of exclusion
The campaign had the opportunity to welcome all people of African descent and fully engage with their history of slavery. It did not. In ... -
“Nothing will fall from the sky”: Algeria’s Revolution marches on – Photo Essay
In February 2019, Algerians took to the streets in the country’s largest demonstrations since independence. This began a movement, known as Hirak or the ... -
The story that became too obvious to ignore in 2019
The climate emergency is not some distant threat. It is here. On the African continent, 2019 was, for me, defined not by the stories ... -
Best of the 2010s: Novels by African writers
The last ten years have seen writers from Africa take the literary world by storm with countless ground-breaking works that have made their way ... -
Burundi: A president “chosen by God” and those who disagree
Pierre Nkurunziza continues to tighten his grip ahead of May 2020 elections. Is it too late to stop the crisis deepening? Four years after ... -
Somalia: President Farmaajo’s stacks the deck to secure a second term
With full elections unlikely in 2020, the incumbent is trying to lock down the support of lawmakers who will again select the president. Although ... -
Funmi Iyanda has a bold new movie out. But don’t call it a comeback.
She never left. In 2004, when Bisi Alimi took the radical decision to come out on national television, he chose to do it on ...
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