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In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.
To ask why COVID-19 hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. We need better questions.
Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.
Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.
Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.
Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.
The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.
Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.
Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.
After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?
The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.
OneTouch travels the African continent, showcasing its natural beauty.
Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?
With photographs by David Bacon.
The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new novel, Americanah—a love story that delves into the complexities of race with humor and empathy.
The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country's brutal civil war.
The Egyptian uprising that began on January 25 has been rightly celebrated as a momentous event. Eighteen continuous days of mass protests forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s three decades of strongman rule.
Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.
Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.
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