I recently arrived at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after a trip to Zambia. Like many other travellers, I went straight to the new self-service passport scanner. Within seconds, the ...

Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, the Nigerian film producer and renowned actor, whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away at 84. He belonged to that group of elders representing the best of ...

When the Algorithm decides what we see: Who governs Africa’s digital democracy? Algorithms are now the unseen architects of African elections. As foreign platforms engineer civic realities through ...

Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing victory claims and allegations of electoral interference. The emerging ...

We are living through a profound contradiction in how our state treats its young. In the speeches, they are our “youth dividend,” the hustler generation whose energy will build the nation. In the ...

The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies The modern autocrat doesn’t need a ...

Weeks before Zambia’s election, a Global Witness report alleges mining-sector influence over government policy—but explicitly concedes it found no evidence of corruption or illegality. This critique ...

With a Somali referee being denied entry into the US, and the surge of online racist abuse after 2026 World Cup matches, racism and exclusion in football are once again in the news. Overt anti-Black ...

Power and pleasure collide with Black hopes and dreams in the show that has sparked global conversation. It tracks the fatal ruptures in what seems like a successful upper class family, the Gomoras.

Kenya’s Gen Z-led protests of 2024 drew global headlines. For weeks, young people mobilised against proposed tax increases, the rising cost of living, unemployment, corruption and what they saw as an ...

Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers Lithium, the “white gold” driving the green energy transition, ...

Historical famines under British rule were never accidental; they were engineered via systematic extraction. Today, that colonial machinery thrives in Kenya. Replacing land theft with sovereign debt, ...