Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
The Pan-African Congress series — the 1900 London conference convened by Henry Sylvester Williams, the 1919 Paris congress alongside the Versailles peace conference, the 1921, 1923, and 1927 …
M-Pesa's dominance of Kenyan retail payments — over 60 million registered users, agent network of around 200,000 outlets, transaction volume that exceeds Kenyan GDP annually in money-flow terms …
The 2020–2022 Tigray war devastated the Tigrinya-language publishing infrastructure. The Mekelle University press, the Ras Publishing house, and the regional newspaper-archive network were either physically destroyed, looted, or …
The Igbo apprenticeship system (*Igba-Boi* or *Imu-Ahia*) is the longest-running, largest-scale informal mass entrepreneurship programme in any African economy. A boy or young man (traditionally) is placed with …
Between March 2022 and March 2024, the Egyptian pound, Nigerian naira, and Ghanaian cedi each lost between 45% and 70% of their value against the US dollar in …
Frantz Fanon's political writing — *Black Skin, White Masks* (1952), *A Dying Colonialism* (1959), *The Wretched of the Earth* (1961) — is among the most influential post-colonial theoretical …
The Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) — the armed group operating in North Kivu province whose 2022–2025 offensive captured substantial territory including Bunagana, Kibumba, and the approaches to …
The Algiers Metro opened in 2011 after 30 years of stop-start construction. The Casablanca tramway opened in 2012. Both are the largest urban rail systems in their respective …
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has, since its 2003 launch under President Kufuor, included a partial integration with the registered herbalist sector through the Ghana Federation of …
Entreprise du Métro d'Alger (EMA), the Algerian state-owned operator of the Algiers metro, has run the system since the 2011 opening under a delegated-management contract with RATP-Dev (the …
The EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542, which entered force in August 2023 with due-diligence reporting requirements phasing in from 2025–2027, requires downstream battery manufacturers selling into the EU market …
Mark Horton's excavations at Shanga on Pate Island, conducted from 1980 through the early 1990s, transformed the understanding of Swahili coastal origins. The pre-Horton interpretation — articulated by …