On January 14, the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) exposed a wide-ranging black-hat image-laundering scheme that implicated government and philanthropic leaders. Among the culprits, ...

I owe Andrew Mtagwaba Kailembo, who has died at the age of 92, a debt of gratitude. News of Andrew’s death on 6 March 2026 took me back to early 1990, when I got my first permanent and pensionable job ...

In the year 1926, when the sun still climbed slow and steady over the red roofs of Ibadan, and the roads remained loyal to dust and earth, a man stepped off a creaking lorry with a chest of tea and a ...

Before steel crossed Kimuka, morning arrived on bare soles pressing into the earth, you could hear the footsteps before you saw the people. The striking red volcanic soil, rich in iron oxides, would ...

The beach of São Francisco was half-empty when we arrived. The morning light had a metallic edge, slicing through the mist that hung low over the Atlantic. The beach smelled faintly of salt, diesel, ...

Geothermal development in Kenya is widely welcomed as green, clean and good for the country. But behind the glowing publicity is a hidden story of forced relocation, human rights abuses, land loss, ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had guests from a neighbouring East African country that had just gone through a bruising presidential electioneering campaign period. They couldn’t fail to notice that even ...

Four years into his stint as a senior technician at the now-defunct Kenya Posts & Telecommunications, in 1971, a young Francis Atwoli took on the role of branch secretary for the parastatal’s ...

Building on the previous Collective Futures edition and reflecting on the afro Asian experiences, Part Two: the Sino-African relationship continues to evolve across history, culture, politics, ...

Baptism by the Atlantic: Ethnographic Field Notes on Faith and Renjianshi of Chinese Migration in Cape Verde ...

Kate Qiyu Chen is currently Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She earned her dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and African Studies from ...