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Stay home and stream: African film and TV to watch during lockdown
As more nations go on lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19, movie theatres across the world find themselves out of service. The ...Africa’s corona response rests on two things: markets and money transfers
African countries can’t just copy rich countries’ responses to COVID-19. Here’s what they can do instead. As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, it ...COVID-19: The AU must adapt, not wait. It’s needed now more than ever.
At the very time the African Union is most needed to manage crises, many of its operations have been put on hold. In Africa’s struggle to ...Africa Elections: All the upcoming votes
How to use the map: the basics This Africa elections map shows you all the upcoming votes. Move around and click to find out more. ...Must Always pads always be low-quality for Kenyans?
In Kenya, Always pads use a cheap material that causes irritation for many. In Europe and the US, they don’t. For more than three decades, Procter & ...
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What happens when we protest: #MeToo in northern Nigeria
Power and patriarchy have many strategies to resist action against sexual violence. But the #ArewaMeToo movement will not give up. Last November, I went ... -
Kony’s rebels remain a threat, but they’re also selling honey to get by
The LRA has gone from a fearsome fighting force to a small band struggling to survive. Is now the moment to finally end the ... -
BP praised for ambition to destroy Africa but potentially a bit slower
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 ... -
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? ... -
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 ...
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