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Podcast: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Transition
We are delighted to introduce you to the first episode of the Into Africa podcast to be created in partnership with African Arguments. Into ... -
Tanzania: The strange and worrying rise of oil-covered rapists in Kigoma
Scores of women in western Tanzania have been attacked and raped in so-called Teleza attacks. The authorities are doing little to stop them. One ... -
This is how our revolution in Egypt failed. Sudan, please be warned.
After Egypt’s 2011 revolution, the military soon acted to retake power. Today, Sudan’s military is behaving and talking in the exact same way. A ... -
Why it’s farcical that UN-Habitat’s first assembly is being held in Nairobi
Almost all the new developments that have come to define the Kenyan capital’s fast-paced growth are technically illegal. This week, the first ever UN-Habitat ... -
Insiders Insight: Binyavanga Wainaina gone too soon
African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ... -
Ethiopia: The challenge to the TPLF…from Tigray’s own grassroots
Local youth protests over land will continue to grow if the TPLF acts as an occupying force rather than a responsible government. Over the ... -
“Sudan gives us confidence”: What next for Uganda’s opposition?
Uganda’s government is clamping down heavily on opposition figure Bobi Wine, but he and his supporters remain undeterred. Outside of the Chief Magistrate Court ... -
A love letter to Kiswahili, those who speak it, and those who think they do
Full of subtleties and triple entendres, threats and assurances, Kiswahili is not one language, but many (…some versions better than others). This is the ... -
How Amharic unites – and divides – Ethiopia
The emperors made us speak one language to bring us together. It failed, but it also succeeded. This is the fifth article in the ... -
From fashion to farming: Surviving and thriving in Kakuma refugee camp
The scorching afternoon sun beats down on Kakuma camp in Kenya’s dry north-east. Home to nearly 150,000 refugees, mostly from South Sudan and Somalia, ...