By Pauline Ongaji What you need to know: Up to 40 per cent of hospital deaths in Kenya are linked to non-communicable diseases. More than half
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The United Arab Emirates has become a sub-imperial power in Africa, investing in ports, airports and infrastructure projects to extract resources and increase its global
Two emails back to back in my inbox, received within two hours of each other a few days ago. The first, a press release from
The Sudanese people and the revolutionary forces are at a critical juncture, caught in the violent grip of a war that began on April 15,
In South Africa’s watershed election last May, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in the country’s
Paul Martial – When discussing Africa, the notion of ethnicity is frequently mentioned, both in general media and among social science researchers. How would you
From Hammer & Hope Inspired by a need for more grounded, non-elite analyses of the current situation in Sudan, we interviewed four people whose organizing
Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael grew up in central Tigray. He received his Bachelor’s in Ethiopia before spending several years between Ethiopia and Norway, where he continued
Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d’état and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). These military juntas are pursuing
The DRC is the subject of renewed interest, linked to the risk of regionalization of the M23 war in the east and to the focus
Saul Dubow is a South African historian specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article first appeared in
From Nawaat In a shocking display of President Kais Saied’s populist politics and anti-migrant crackdown, Tunisian police forcibly dismantled a protest camp of asylum seekers
From The Contrapuntal Magazine On the first anniversary of the Sudan war, I am confronted with the thorny pains that accompany every act of remembrance.
I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, the words: “Our daughter is blue.”
A new book – The US Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa – reveals the role played by some right wing US
As violent conflict rises across West Africa, the phrase “farmer-herder conflict” has taken hold from the local to international levels. Farmer-herder conflict is an umbrella
From the London Review of Books Review of: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War, by Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan. Hurst, 2023 What are the major wars
Ethiopia is one of the world’s most populous countries, and yet the 2020-22 Tigray War and ongoing suffering in the region has been largely ignored
From The Dial The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place. There’s a legend among South
From Phenomenal World Sudan’s ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has killed thousands and displaced millions. The current crisis
Ethiopia has a population of 126mn and is the second most populous state in Africa, behind Nigeria. The urban population is less than a quarter
Summary Post-slavery is an academic analytical concept that signifies the fragmented legacies and continuities of past slavery and slave trade in contemporary societies after its
While current levels of economic inequality in Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in
In February 2020, the editors of this volume organized a POMEPS workshop that explored the origins of the disciplinary divide between the study of Africa
On the second day of Ramadan, in early May of 2019, the Doha-based television channel Libya al-Ahrar aired an episode of its hidden camera program
African evangelicals align themselves with the American right and there are many parallels between American and African evangelicals that may explain why the latter support
“Race and Racism in Africa and the Middle East” was part of the nationwide #ScholarStrike to halt academic business as usual and to instead host
Bruce S. Hall is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. This article first appeared in Antropologia Vol. 7 No.
Laura Menin is an Italian anthropologist based at the University of Sussex, UK, whose research explores love, intimacy, political violence, racialisation, and the legacies of
Racist, anti-black stereotypes persist in Arabic literature. It reveals a racial anxiety and othering of Africa among celebrated Arab authors. When I first migrated to
Documentary films addressing the topic of slavery and the slave trade in Africa are rare. As a specialist in slavery and race studies focusing on
From New Politics A CNN report last November about slave auctions in present-day Libya shocked the world.1 The existence of these slave auctions was widely treated
In 1983, 23 years after its independence and the succession of several neo-colonial regimes, the Upper Volta was one of the most materially destitute countries
Kapya Kaoma is a Zambian, US-educated scholar, pastor and human rights defender who is most noted for his ecological, and LGBTQI+ scholarship, particularly regarding Africa.
The ethno-nationalism that marked apartheid’s dying days has now morphed into a malignant “nativism” that threatens post-apartheid democracy. Africa is a Country editorial board member
From Jadaliyya Brahim El Guabli (BEG): Why Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam? Chouki El Hamel (CEH): Written history about Morocco is
Eve Troutt Powell is a professor of History and Middle East and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a MacArthur Fellow