Africa: Liberal Democracy Is in Crisis, Does It Need Rethinking?

Authoritarianism is on the rise, coups back in fashion, and elections reduced to a perfunctory ritual. How do we reverse the slide? Read more »

Cameroon: How Climate Change Is Forcing Elephants and Humans to Share Space

As northern Cameroon heats up, elephants are migrating in search of food and water and increasingly finding themselves in face-to-face to humans. Read more »

Liberia: Why Liberia's President Weah Must Go (Democratically)

Liberia's disaffected citizens are more than justified in hoping that the 10 October election brings change. Read more »

Liberia: Young People Are the Real Peacekeepers in Liberia

A generation with no memory of the civil war will be voting in October - despite their abiding loss of faith in Liberia's politicians. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Coastal Communities Build Flood Barriers With Mud and Sticks

As they continue to wait in vain for state intervention amid rising sea levels, people in Akwa Ibom are taking matters into their own hands. Read more »

Niger: Niger - The Resource Politics of a Post-Colonial Revolt

FrançAfrique, the opaque independence deal that supplied Africa's resources to France, is being dismantled one coup at a time. Is Mr Yevgeny Prigozhin the new master behind… Read more »

West Africa: Will the Sahel Survive Another Coup?

An Arab, deposed President Bazoum's attempts to shuffle his Fulani-dominated Republican Guard, may have triggered the coup. With French and US troops stationed there, and Russia in… Read more »

West Africa: How Nigeria's Fuel Subsidy Shock Jolted Cameroon's Economy

In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria's fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region. Read more »

Cameroon: Paul Biya's Ghostly Legacy in Cameroon - The Absence That Shaped a Nation

In power for 41 years, the 90 year-old president has ruled mostly in absentia, a ghostly embodiment of a gerontocracy that has gifted its people the concept of Waithood. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Security Crisis - Under Tinubu, Continuity Will Lead to Calamity

President Tinubu's response to Nigeria's security crisis so far signals much of the same inaction. Should the UK intervene? Read more »

Nigeria: Will Dangote's Refinery Turn Nigeria's Expensive Oil Habit Into a Blessing?

The opening of the Refinery is the biggest good news story in decades. Is there reason to be nervous about another Dangote monopoly? Read more »

Nigeria: Degrees of Heat - Northern Nigeria Students Wilt in Climate Extremes

What can universities do as a hotter and longer dry season impacts students' health and performance? Read more »

Senegal: Senegal's Angry Protesters Are Proud Defenders of Their Democracy

Senegal's protesters should be lauded for defending their country's democracy, not condemned for fomenting chaos. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Happy City Is On the Brink of Being Swallowed By the Sea

As the community await international funding and national action, the once reputed coastal town is disappearing in rising ocean surges. Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroon - the Keyboard Warlords of the Breakaway Republic

Two social media rivals from the Anglophone southwest, based in far-off England, have been prosecuting their own digital war - with life-and-death consequences in Ambazonia. Read more »

Nigeria: Afrobeats - The Birth of Afro-Adura

The fast-rising genre is spawning a new wave of Afrobeats stars, and adds a spiritual dimension rooted in a century-old African church. Read more »

Cameroon: Meet Cameroon's Undercover Conservationists

When the Anglophone war broke out, state rangers left, militias set up camp in forests, and thousands sought refuge in areas of critical biodiversity. Read more »

Senegal: Gatsa-Gatsa - Ousmane Sonko and the Politics of Retaliation

Sonko's legal problems, which appear engineered to frustrate his presidential bid, could well push the country back into the street. Read more »

Liberia: Is Liberia Heading Towards an Electoral Crisis?

A much-criticised census and a cash-strapped electoral commission are the biggest signs that the October elections could be bungled. Read more »

Nigeria: How Nigeria Avoided Organized Violence During the 2023 Elections

Super Camps and military vigilance in the North, and Peter Obi's candidature in the southeast quelled much potential violence. Read more »

Nigeria: President Tinubu - an Ambivalent Record?

Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Curious Voter Turnout Problem

Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth? Read more »

Nigeria: Did Nigeria's Election Tech Fail or Was It Sabotaged?

Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone. Read more »

Senegal: Safi Faye - Farewell to a Pioneering Filmmaker

Senegalese filmmaker was the first African woman to make a commercial feature film, Kaddu Beykat, in 1975. Read more »

Nigeria: Will Technology Deliver a Clean Election for Nigeria?

Voter registration is up, as confidence in election technology grows, but trust in the electoral commission continues to flounder. Read more »