Abdou Rahim Lema is doing a Ph.D. at the University of Montreal, where he is a former Vanier Scholar (2022), He is also a former Yenching Scholar of Peking University.

As is still common in the “Global South,” Affo, 29, was born in a polygamous family comprising more than two dozen children. Yet, he is the second child to have obtained a high school degree and the ...

The pupils call him Babu behind his back. Grandpa. He is held in great affection by his charges in this school that was built in 1948, next to the native market on the edge of a colonial farm where ...

After three and a half weeks in South Africa and Zimbabwe, returning to the United States feels like stepping out of a vivid, sun-soaked world into a cold landscape of unrelenting gloom, as if the ...

At the break of dawn in Bushiangala, Ikolomani, rural Kakamega, Mercelina Injete’s day begins with a ritual known to her and other artisanal miners in the gold trade. Her “office” is a patch of earth ...

On September 17-18 2025, the Civic Freedom Forum held a two-day Civic Space Protection Summit in Nakuru, a gathering focused on the challenges faced by civil society and human rights defenders. The ...

Western deception has been with Africa forever. 1493: Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull, Inter Caetera, proclaiming the right of Spain and Portugal to enslave Africans and own the land. They were ...

A realist and a storyteller, Mahmood Mamdani deftly embeds his personal experience with the intellectual bearing that makes his work trustworthy.

The ongoing debate regarding the true size of the African continent is significant and timely. The African Union is supporting the call to depict Africa in its true size as just and moral. Spearheaded ...

Thank you for this invitation. I was unsure whether I was the appropriate person to address the theme of using comics for learning. The reason is simple: I am a great critic of the new school system, ...

The trend towards the commercialisation of football is not limited to the most powerful and competitive leagues in Western Europe but affects all regions of the world, including Africa. In recent ...

I received the news of Raila’s death the way I receive most sad news these days: through WhatsApp. A short message from my friend, Dr Eric Orimbo. Simple. Direct. Unmistakable. The reality of the loss ...