Columns / View From Africa

Governments need to pull their weight.

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.

Nanjala Nyabola questions why the West always has to put itself at the centre of the story.

Confessions of a frequent flier by Nanjala Nyabola.

The cries of a discontented world, by Nanjala Nyabola.

After Mugabe by Nanjala Nyabola.

On Hodan Nalayeh by Nanjala Nyabola.

Check your passport privilege, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

A history of violence. For Nanjala Nyabola, the sentencing of Trump’s campaign chair tells us a lot about the West’s relationship to Africa.

Nanjala Nyabola comments on the fluctuating, and often unaffordable, cost of local staples in Madagascar.

Nanjala Nyabola questions Cameroon's never-ending presidential terms.

Misinformation and fake news in Africa is rife, particularly via social media writes Nanjala Nyabola, but it’s not just a Western problem.

Progress without people. Nanjala Nyabola on Kenya's embrace of the Chinese development model.