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By William ShokiAugust 10, 2026

This publishing break, we contemplate why we’re all feeling so burnt out.

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A border spectacle

When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial history behind it.

Nabil FerdaoussiAug 7, 2026

Africa Is a Country

Between feminism and pan-Africanism

A charter twenty African governments just endorsed defends seed sovereignty and economic independence in one breath, and moves to gut abortion and queer rights in the next.

Hilmelda TenkeuAug 6, 2026

Africa Is a Country

The prosecutions that never happen

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency secures thousands of convictions every year, but when it comes to politically-connected elites, it’s a different story.

Obongodu Paul UnanamAug 5, 2026

Africa Is a Country

The price of potential

Joseph O’Neill’s new novel follows a Pittsburgh writer chasing a West African wonderkid. It’s also a story about who profits every time the world goes looking for the next Eusébio.

Matthew KirwinAug 4, 2026

Africa Is a Country

Sovereign rot

From Eko Atlantic to the Niger Delta, elite enclaves have become the defining spatial expression of Nigeria’s political order.

Ninu SonugaAug 3, 2026

Africa Is a Country

Had he been buried

Binyavanga Wainaina was cremated in a private ceremony in 2019. In his final year, the writer kept returning to a colonial chief’s grave beneath a sacred fig tree in Nairobi — as if contemplating what remains of a life.

Njuki GithethwaJul 30, 2026

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