There is a quiet kind of violence that states are particularly good at. It does not arrive with spectacle. It comes through paperwork. Through silence. Through the slow, bureaucratic unmaking of a…
It was the end of 2025, that in-between stretch of the year when offices begin to wind down, group chats fill with “last meetings,” and people speak as though life will slow…
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is preparing for a new president following the end of Faith Odhiambo’s two-year, non-renewable term. There are three candidates in the race for the 52nd President…
The just-concluded 35th AFCON edition held in Morocco showed that racial hierarchies and the legacy of colonialism continue to shape the continent profoundly. This is a continuation of the debate by the…
The 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), recently concluded in Morocco, was far more than just a sporting event. It served as a lens through which pre-existing social, political,…
At five in the morning, before the village of Savalou, Benin is fully awake, Véronique is already outside. The air is still cool, and the smell of fermented cassava hangs faintly around…
“She is Chihera. She is the epitome of a liberated woman and the nemesis of patriarchy”, Ezra Chitando, Sophia Chirongoma and Munyaradzi Nyakudya on their work on Chihera as a Radical African…
Institutions have never truly hated sex. They hate honesty. What they despise is not desire, but desire that refuses to kneel, confess, or pretend it doesn’t exist. So instead of eliminating pleasure,…
Earlier this year, I shared a photo on X of myself drinking tea at an outdoor cafe in Mogadishu. My main argument, written in response to a discussion about Somalia’s masculine cafe…
This opinion piece is inspired by a short critical article written by a friend from many moons ago, Seble Teweldebirehan. Sebli and I met in 2015 when we both attended an evening…