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Africa in a multipolar world
How does the continent press its advantages in the age of multipolarity, summit diplomacy and the new scramble for minerals for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? The ...Uganda’s struggles resettling climate-displaced communities
Landslides and flash floods, made more likely by climate change, and deforestation have made some areas of Uganda permanently risky to live in. Over many years, ...The revolution devours its children: The fall of a royal house in republican Rwanda
The rise and scattering of an elite family, not on account of their ethnicity, but despite it, exemplifies the tragedy of authoritarianism in Rwanda. In 1793, ...South Africa: Will an investor-friendly mining policy turn the economy around?
Reviving South Africa’s flagging mining sector will take much more than the cosmetics of a new investor-friendly policy. The establishment of South Africa’s Government of National ...Why gas is not a good alternative to coal for South Africa
Vested interests are lobbying for gas as a transition fuel despite its many economic, logistical, and environmental risks. South Africa is immersed in a “just energy ...
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The revolution devours its children: The fall of a royal house in republican Rwanda
The rise and scattering of an elite family, not on account of their ethnicity, but despite it, exemplifies the tragedy of authoritarianism in Rwanda. ... -
On World Meningitis Day, too many people are dying of cryptococcal meningitis in Africa
Improving outcomes for patients requires urgent efforts to reduce the price of treatments and increase access to drugs. When Zikhona, a young woman from ... -
Bridging the Nutritional Gap: A call to action for burn victims in Ethiopia
More than 75 percent of severely burned patients lose up to a quarter of their pre-admission weight and end up malnourished. Burns are a ... -
The puzzle of Libya’s ancient ruins
Libya is replete with ancient ruins, archaeological sites and cultural landmarks. Why aren’t the locals interested? In the summer of 2023, I went home ... -
Moving the Talai: How the British tried, and failed, to eliminate the native prophets of the Rift Valley
The evidence of colonial Britain’s attempt to eliminate the Talai a century ago is only now coming to light, as the last of the ... -
A story within a story: The making and unmaking of Ethiopia’s imperial messiah
This unauthorised biography of Abiy Ahmed is a nuanced, unsparing examination of a leader trying to hold together a republic being undone by its ... -
The rise of the African left
Bassirou Faye and PASTEF’s victory in Senegal in March marked the stunning, decade-long rise of a leftist party. As Africa’s Gen Z protest movements ... -
Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki ...
