Yusuf Ahmad is a researcher specializing in Africa and the Middle East. He has lived and worked extensively across the continent and holds two master’s degrees in African history and anthropology.

In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, ...

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In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.

Sam Chian teaches economics and social studies at an upper secondary school in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He ...

The ability of African leaders to go rogue and begin looking at policies that benefit their people even at the expense of Western interests is growing while Western countries are not able to push back ...

Millennials have their versions of lost innocence: 2007 and 2017, the seismic years of post-election violence. And now, watching you Gen Zs, I see that same flicker of dawning realization in your eyes ...

Oyunga Pala is a Kenyan journalist, editor and a curator of The Elephant’s series on the Gen revolution. He resides in the Netherlands.

THE DISILLUSIONED AND THE DISCONTENTED: Will the ‘Born-80s’ generation finally rescue Kenya?

The Tanzanian government is threatening to evict more than 80,000 Maasai from the Ngorongoro world heritage site, claiming that the Maasai must be cleared from their land in the interests of ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

Journalist and activist John Githongo reflects on the shifting story of anti-corruption in Africa, from Western models to new agendas.