Culture, being a way of life in Africa, has borne the brunt of climate change. African customs and social practices, including medicine and religion, have been affected by climate change in the same ...

A year ago, one or two months of dry weather meant an automatic switch from hydro power to expensive diesel-generated electricity. This year is different. The country is calmly awaiting the onset of ...

There was an event and a resolution at the just-concluded AU Heads of State and Government Summit in Addis Ababa that caught my attention. The resolution was on the migrant crisis. Although it failed ...

It is virtually impossible these days to have a discourse on public affairs, without a ritual flogging of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism, writes Daniel Rogers (Dissent Magazine, Winter 2018) “is the ...

From Khartoum to Kampala, from Ougadougou to Lusaka, the revolt of Africa’s youth against the ageing strongmen of the liberation era is reconfiguring society in unprecedented ways. At the core of the ...

Ofafa Jericho, one of the oldest estates in Nairobi, is fast becoming a showcase for what the concept of circular economy means to humanity. Yet it is not one of those places where you would expect ...