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1980s throw-back, by Nanjala Nyabola.

Suspending pandemic reality, by Nanjala Nyabola.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on oxygen inequity and the price paid by her country’s citizens.

From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching in Brazil.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the colossal failure of governance that has led to needless deaths on a massive scale.

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

When will Chad be free – of France? Asks Nanjala Nyabola

Women experiencing violence from their partners need more than a helpline, says Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Nanjala Nyabola mourns the loss of Nairobi’s tree canopy and questions the expansion of cities.

Nilanjana Bhowmick on the double whammy of natural disaster and Covid-19 that has brought a vulnerable ecosystem to the brink.

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Summon the artists.

Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil.

Governments need to pull their weight.

Nilanjana Bhowmick despairs of India’s new religion; why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow.

You shall live; and you shall die. Leonardo Sakamoto examines his country’s necropolitics in the light of Black Lives Matter.

Nanjala Nyabola on the mask mandate and personal freedom.

Nanjala Nyabola grapples with the challenge of misinformation and disinformation.