Africa: Embracing Africa's Green Legacy - a Letter to My Future Self

A leader in the Africa Youth Climate Assembly envisions an African climate future. Read more »

Africa: Letter to Future Self - 'The Spirit of Community Action Was the Beating Heart of Our Progress'

Looking ahead to a future free of fossil fuels, powered by the relentless sun, wind and other renewables. Read more »

Africa: Brics and Africa - New Beginning or False Dawn?

With 40 countries on the waiting list, Egypt and Ethiopia's entry into BRICS marks another notch for Beijing's geopolitical expansion. Read more »

Africa: View(s) From Africa - What's At Stake At Africa Climate Week?

We asked a panel of policy experts about their hopes, fears, and expectations from the Africa Climate Summit and Week. Read more »

Africa: Africa Elections 2023 - All the Upcoming Votes

A regularly updated list and interactive map of the upcoming elections in Africa in 2023. Read more »

Africa: A Drug Development Model for the Diseases the World Forgot

Eschewing profit, over the past 20 years researchers at the Deadly and Neglected Diseases Initiative have developed a dozen drugs accessible to the world's most forgotten patients. Read more »

Africa: Big Conservation NGOs Are Majority Governed By Finance Figures

Conservationists express alarm that finance execs dominate the boards of four powerful NGOs, especially as controversial carbon markets skyrocket. Read more »

Africa: The Africa Climate Summit Must Dare Speak the Unspeakable

Fossil fuels, by far the biggest source of emissions, have brought much harm and few benefits to Africa. Yet climate agreements barely mention them. Read more »

Africa: The Climate Future Is Here, and It Looks Like This Proud Commune in South Africa

With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future. Read more »

Africa: Decolonising African Cinema in the Time of Netflix

90% of Africa's cultural legacy resides outside the continent; audiovisual restitution is a battle for memory as urgent as artefact restitution. Read more »

Africa: Africa Climate Summit - Kenya's Green Growth Pitch Sparks Justice Concerns

Outcry over McKinsey's role and unease with Ruto's focus on finance raises questions as to whether the summit will truly be "by Africans for Africans". Read more »

Africa: Africa's Unique Path to Sustainable Industrialisation

As a latecomer to industrialisation, the continent faces some unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities. Read more »

Africa: Kenyans Look to the Foggy Heavens for Water Amid State Neglect

With millions lacking decent access to water, growing numbers are using cheap innovations like fog harvesting to take it straight from the air. Read more »

Africa: A Mythical Giant Snake Is Helping Raise Climate Awareness in Malawi

Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action. Read more »

Africa: Tinubu's Cabinet Nominees - Renewed Hope or Recycled Tropes?

Tinubu's cabinet is stacked with political heavyweights: nine ex-governors, several former cabinet ministers and legislators. An indication, perhaps, of growing anxieties about the… Read more »

Africa: India's Call for African Union to Join the G20 and the China Factor

The Hindu nationalist leader's G20 Africa membership appeal casts him in a heroic, anti-imperialist glow. What does his silence on the same issue among BRICS members reveal? Read more »

Africa: Zimbabwean Legend, Thomas Mapfumo Retires in Exile

After five decades on the stage, one of the continent's great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, takes his last bow - in exile, because it was too… Read more »

Africa: Dear EU, Commemorating Climate Victims Is Good but Action Is Better

Ahead of the first ever EU day for the victims of the global climate crisis, let's remember who's responsible for the worsening situation. Read more »

Africa: 20 Years After Maputo, It's a Long Road Ahead to Gender Equality

Two decades on from a landmark treaty advancing the rights of African women, gender equality remains alive on paper, elusive in practice. Read more »

Africa: Who, What, Where? the Loss and Damage Fund's Unresolved Questions

Since the breakthrough agreement at COP27, developed and developing countries have remained at odds on key details. Read more »

Africa: Africa Must Own the Idea of the 'Just Transition'

There's no one-size-fits-all with sustainable economies. A just transition on the continent will look very different to one in the Global North. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Struggle for Environmental Justice in an Age of Death

The framework of our civilisation is premised on the destruction of the planet, with Africa as a sacrificial zone. Read more »

Africa: Frelimo Turns to Dirty Tricks for the 2023 Local Elections

Haunted by corruption, accused of running down the economy, Frelimo will nevertheless sweep the October elections - whether voters like it or not. Read more »

Africa: Afrobeats - How Does the Next Chapter Play Out?

Afrobeats rode on its own generated zeitgeist to become a staple of the global cultural marketplace. How does it negotiate a bigger piece of the pie? Read more »

Africa: The View(s) From Africa - What to Make of the Bonn Climate Talks?

We gathered a diverse panel to break down the significance and outcomes of the crucial pre-COP28 meeting for Africa. Read more »