Regions / Africa
Articles about Africa, ordered by date. 
Africa’s pandora’s box
Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.
Climate coups
Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to the COP28 climate summit, argues if the West wants to address the wave of coups in Africa, it must take real climate action – rather than pursuing further failed militarization.
‘Our culture is word of mouth’
Decolonizing Africa’s media means interrogating its form as well as its content. Patrick Gathara examines an initiative which tells narrative stories through live performance in Kenya, and asks what lessons it holds for the continent at large.
The fight for reparations
The push for repair emanates from movements with a rich and varied history. Priya Lukka explores where we’ve come from and what could be ahead.
Spotlight: Baaba Maal
Mixing traditional African instruments like the ngoni and kora with modern electronic production techniques. Words by Graeme Green.
Shadow courts
Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.
View from Africa
Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi’s tree canopy and questions the expansion of cities.
Fighting dispossession
Cape Town’s citizens’ groups are not taking housing injustice lying down, according to Ben Verghese and Ilham Rawoot.
Enter: the new daughters of Africa
With the release of New Daughters of Africa, editor Margaret Busby explains why the collection – 25 years after Daughters of Africa was published – could not have come at a better time and introduces three stories from the anthology.
Power struggle
Africa's $10-billion energy project faces problems.
The rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba
Art and story by Ilya, with Yohann Koshy.
Country Profile: Somalia
Somalia today is more like a political marketplace than a modern nation-state, writes Claire Elder.
Why did the market fail to produce an Ebola vaccine?
Mustapha Dumbaya lost 47 relatives in the outbreak. He explores why dysfunctional R&D is letting down those people who need it most.
The energy fix
What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.
Africa’s green, clean, sustainable future
Development in the industrialized world has come at a high price, writes Mohamed Adow.
Power to the people?
Community micro-grids, government-controlled energy, or both? Three experts thrash out the options.
Desertec: the renewable energy grab?
Desert solar plants planned for North Africa are just another exploitative resource grab, argues Hamza Hamouchene.
A word with Angélique Kidjo
Louise Gray talks to the award-winning musician about the resilience of African music, and why she won’t be pigeon-holed.
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