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14 Jun 2022 7 minute read
Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw...
12 Jun 2022 2 minute read
The activists of the Arab Spring have faced a devastating backlash. We must support them, writes Nanjala Nyabola...
6 Jun 2022 5 minute read
Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis...
4 Apr 2021 7 minute read
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Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a...
7 Jan 2022 3 minute read
Mamady Doumbouya, the latest snout at Guinea’s trough.
15 Dec 2021 1 minute read
An intimate 7-minute video portrait shares a stonecutter’s family struggling with hunger in Sierra Leone.
14 Dec 2021 5 minute read
Mike Loewe reports from South Africa on the community fighting to stop Shell from exploration along its...
1 Dec 2021 4 minute read
A decade on from the revolution, and after a succession of chaotic governments, is democracy teetering in Tunisia, asks...
24 Nov 2021 3 minute read
DJ Switch, a 13-year-old campaigner for children’s rights and all-round powerhouse, talks with Subi...
8 Nov 2021 4 minute read
The recent anti-deforestation pledge at the UN climate talks is a welcome announcement, but to protect the ‘lungs of Africa...
11 Oct 2021 3 minute read
Multiple coups, a global virus and democracy on the ropes in many parts of the world. Nanjala Nyabola asks...
19 Sep 2021 1 minute read
Hazel Healy sheds light on a deeply dysfunctional food chain.
20 Sep 2021 8 minute read
A one-party political system, mass disappearances and a total ban on non-state media – Alex Jackson of...
10 Aug 2021 12 minute read
With herders under threat from global heating in Somaliland, the government has hatched a plan to move millions to the coast...
8 Aug 2021 2 minute read
Richard Swift on East Africa’s first woman president, a Zanzibar-based organizer promising to protect...
27 Jul 2021 4 minute read
South Africa’s recent uprisings have revealed how much of a tinderbox the country is, argues Glen Retief....
