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Ugandans at London's LGBT pride parade in 2016. Chris Beckett/Flickr

As Uganda passes its anti-gay law, Rosebell Kagumire decries the way faltering governments make scapegoats of...

Baaba Maal. Photo by Matthew Donaldson

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal speaks to Graeme Green about music making a difference.

A man looks at the Qoloji displacement camp, the largest in Ethiopia. EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr

A court case shows the continent’s demand for social media companies to be accountable for their impact offline, columnist...

The making of tax haven Mauritius. MATHIEU STERN/UNSPLASH

Naomi Fowler of Taxcast investigates the making of a tax haven that's been hurting Indians and Africans for...

Women sift stones for building material at the abandoned slagheap of the Chinese-owned Luanshya Copper Mine, in Kitwe, Zambia. ​​​​​​​Credit: Joerg Boethling/Alamy 

Debt crises are back with a vengeance as the dollar goes from strength to strength and interest rates rise. As the...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah

The activists of the Arab Spring have faced a devastating backlash. We must support them, writes Nanjala Nyabola...

Nigerians gather for the Abeokuta Prayer walk on 17 October 2020, mobilizing against police brutality and corrupt governance.  Credit: Asokeretope

Two years on from the Lekki toll gate shooting, Obiora Ikoku, reflects on the legacy of Nigeria’s youth-led movement against...

Starting from humble DIY beginnings, Nigerian special effects posse The Critics are making waves. By Subi Shah...

The black rocks of Pungo Andongo in the north of Angola

Joana Ramiro summarizes the Southern African nation’s recent history of ‘European encroachment and African...

NDONGO SAMBA SYLLA

Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla speaks to Hazel Healy about why he thinks ‘neo-...

Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw...

Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis...

10-year-old Ruth Bitrus from Michika, in northeastern Nigeria, whose parents were killed by Boko Haram following the invasion of her hometown. IMMANUEL OFOLABI

Almost half of Nigerians want to move abroad in the next five years, Nosmot Gbadamosi writes, and the...

Swapsies: Nigerian artist Lukas Osarobo-Okoro, photographed outside the British Museum in London. Osarobo-Okoro and the Ahiamwen Guild of Benin have offered to donate new artworks to the institution. DYLAN MARTINEZ/ALAMY

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Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a...

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Mamady Doumbouya, the latest snout at Guinea’s trough.

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An intimate 7-minute video portrait shares a stonecutter’s family struggling with hunger in Sierra Leone.

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