Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
The current Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan is the latest episode in a sixty-year argument about Nile water rights. The argument's legal core …
Pfumvudza — Shona for 'a new season' — is the conservation-agriculture protocol the Zimbabwean Ministry of Agriculture promoted hard from 2020 onward as the answer to a decade …
Between 3 February and 24 March 2024, Senegal moved through a constitutional crisis that could have ended democratic rule and instead delivered the most decisive opposition victory in …
The eNaira launched in October 2021 as the first African central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning Nigeria as a global pioneer alongside Bahamas's Sand Dollar (2020) and ahead …
The 2024 edition of *Le Robert* included roughly forty new Senegalese-French entries drawn from Wolof — *gor*, *mbeur*, *dem dik*, *teranga*, *thiof*, *yaye*, and others long current in …
Steve Bantu Biko, killed in police custody on 12 September 1977 at the age of 30, left a body of writing — collected posthumously in *I Write What …
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) was established by the African Union in 2017 as a Specialized Technical Institution of the AU Commission, headquartered …
Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023 inheriting a Naira regime with multiple official rates, a Central Bank of Nigeria parallel-market premium of roughly 60%, and an external …
Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the South African Reserve Bank from November 2014 through his second term ending in 2024 (with the third term commencing under expected continuity), has …
On 25 June 2024 protestors breached the Kenyan Parliament during a vote on the Finance Bill. The Bill, which would have introduced new VAT on bread and motor …
Walk into a café in Addis Ababa and ask the barista what year it is and they will say, depending on the season, 2018 or 2019. Your phone …
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), launched commercially by Afreximbank and the African Union in January 2022, is a real-time gross settlement platform allowing African banks to …