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  • Bob Barigye, an enviromental activist, in the capital, Kampala. Photo by John Okot.
    ClimateEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Enemies of the state”: Uganda targets climate activists in quiet crackdown

    By John Okot
    March 16, 2023
    Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. ...
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  • Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill

    By Kristof Titeca
    March 10, 2023
    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 ...
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  • The AfDB African Emergency Food Production Facility is centred on expanding an industrial model of agriculture centred on monocropping and use of chemical fertilisers. Credit: CIMMYT/ Peter Lowe.
    ClimateEditor's Picks

    Why’s the AfDB siding with the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?

    By Frédéric Mousseau & Andy Currier
    March 10, 2023
    Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. ...
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  • Leila Aboulela (Courtesy: Victoria Gilder PR)
    BOOKSCultureEditor's PicksSudanWRITER INTERVIEW

    “Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”

    By Leila Aboulela
    March 7, 2023
    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 ...
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  • Safi Faye in repose.
    CultureEditor's PicksSenegalTribute

    Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker

    By Estrella Sendra
    February 24, 2023
    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 ...
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  • President Hakainde Hichilema visiting the IMF in New York in September 2022. Credit: IMF Photo/Kim Haughton.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsZambia

    Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 16, 2022
    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 ...
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  • Best African books of 2022.
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    The best African books of 2022

    By Samira Sawlani
    December 14, 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 ...
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  • EconomyEditor's PicksSomaliland

    The making of a global port, and the unmaking of a people

    By Nasir M. Ali, Jutta Bakonyi & May Darwich
    December 1, 2022
    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 ...
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  • Has decolonisation become fetishised?
    Book reviewEditor's PicksSociety

    Is it time to abandon decolonisation?

    By Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh
    November 17, 2022
    Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book.   Does decolonisation, ...
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  • The social justice movement in Kenya includes about 70 centres across the country, including in Mathare, Nairobi. Credit: Ninara.
    Editor's PicksKenyaPolitics

    “A struggle in a struggle”: Patriarchy in Kenya’s social justice movement

    By Lena Anyuolo
    November 9, 2022
    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 ...
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