Editor’s Picks
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“Enemies of the state”: Uganda targets climate activists in quiet crackdown
Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. ... -
Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill
As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan ... -
Why’s the AfDB siding with the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. ... -
“Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”
An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ... -
Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker
Senegalese filmmaker was the first African woman to make a commercial feature film, Kaddu Beykat, in 1975. Last Thursday, as filmmakers, curators and cinephiles were ... -
Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home
Since coming to power in 2021, Hichilema has enthusiastically courted the approval of the West, often at Zambia’s expense. Despite his lack of significant ... -
The best African books of 2022
From the thought provoking and evocative to the laughter inducing, here are our best African books of 2022 (in no particular order). Things They ... -
The making of a global port, and the unmaking of a people
Having survived centuries of successive governments, colonialism and war, have Berbera’s dockworkers finally met their match? Somaliland’s dockworkers have been part of the unique ... -
Is it time to abandon decolonisation?
Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book. Does decolonisation, ... -
“A struggle in a struggle”: Patriarchy in Kenya’s social justice movement
Sexism is depleting activist movements, silencing women’s voices, and leading to burnout. Yet it is hardly spoken about. When Irene Asuwa first found out ...
