Africa
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Youth disappointment as Nigeria chooses Tinubu
Peter Obi’s campaign had inspired a new generation hoping for change. Adaora Osondu-Oti explores how, instead, the incumbent party won a bitterly contested election
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Tapping technology in Nairobi’s informal settlements
Prince Guma reflects on how new digital technologies for water provision have been adapted – and subverted – in informal settlements in Nairobi
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The movement to save Virunga National Park
A beloved national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing devastating oil exploitation. Pascal Mirindi tells Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya about the local resistance movement
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Tunisia’s struggle for energy democracy
Tunisian unions are not only fighting for better terms and conditions in the energy sector. They want democratic control, writes Ilyes Benammar
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#EndSARS: Two years since the Nigerian police murder which sparked a youth movement
Two years since protests successfully demanded to end SARS, police brutality continues to be a problem in Nigeria. Obiora Ikoku reports
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Steve Biko. ‘The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed’
Mike Peters explores the legacy of Steve Biko, a radical who spent his life fighting for Black liberation and for the overthrow of the Apartheid government in South Africa.
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Essay: The death of international development
‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty