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 ...

Reading the Africa Cup of Nations through its stands alone means missing what it produces socially. The stands give the tournament a visible form, but they offer only a partial account of how the ...

What’s in an Africa Cup of Nations final? For Morocco, a chance at long-awaited continental glory. Since 1976 when the Ahmed Faras’ Atlas Lions lifted the Cup, generations of superstars have come and ...

Elections ordinarily serve two main purposes. One, they facilitate the peaceful change of leaders or the renewal of the mandate of incumbents, which is necessary for their legitimacy regardless of the ...

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When Ugandans head to the presidential polls on 15 th January, they will be voting for the seventh time under the mostly liberal 1995 constitution that opened the country up to political participation ...

We Ugandans return to the polls on the 15 th of January, after five years of something best forgotten. This country has strange politics. In the 20-odd years between 1962 and 1980, when we never held ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

With a million babies born each year, Kenya’s annual diaper consumption is estimated at 800 million pieces. The government considers them “essential items” and has lately been encouraging ...

June marks six months since the East African Community Heads of State Summit agreed to send an East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo to ...

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and ...