An assessment of the failed coup in Benin and the implications for democratic struggles within West Africa.

A critical analysis of the M23 capture of Uvira amid the signing of the US-brokered peace deal between the Rwanda and DRC.

How digital platforms redistributed political power during Madagascar’s Gen Z uprising, enabling horizontal coordination, contesting narratives, reshaping political geography, and supporting diaspora participation and counter-surveillance.

A psychoanalysis of Suluhu’s actions and events surrounding the October 2025 Tanzania elections and the aftermath 

Pambazuka expresses grief with the departed and their families, condemns the killings and calls for restructuring of Tanzania.

Where is U-Ndugu? A burning question surrounding the inhumane, anti-cultural and anti-spiritual treatments of the living and the dead in Tanzania’s 2025 elections.

In the wake of killings and deaths associated with Tanzania’s 2025 elections, Rubara reflects on persisting challenges and how unity and transformation may be forged. 

A tribute to Raila Odinga and the lessons from his legacy for the collective struggles that remain

Exploring the relations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Nigerian government: From strikes and the erosion of public education—symptomatic of national decay—to pathways for renewal. 

Explaining the Gen Z protests and the overthrow of the President of Madagascar

A commemoration and reflection on Kenya’s constitutional journey and a challenge to the youths about the defence of the Katiba. 

Adem draws on direct engagement with communities in the Horn of Africa, especially in Tigray, and highlights perspectives often absent in international debates on Ethiopia’s post-war future.

The calculated exclusion of opposition leaders from Cameroon’s upcoming presidential election is a consequence of more than four decades of deliberate authoritarian political architecture. 

Nelvis Qekema reminds South Africa’s President Ramaphosa of his Black consciousness roots and calls for social justice for the country’s majority Black community living under historical and persisting injustices.

Yeboah examines the issues surrounding the constitutional coup in Togo and the struggles of the ordinary people and the Togolese working class guiding this year’s recurring protests that began in June.

Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.

Wangusi challenges the loud silence of those in authority regarding the investigations of Africa Uncensored into the alleged grooming and sexual exploitation in Kenya’s Alliance Girls High School.

Touray explores an assertion that US Exceptionalism must come to terms with the Inevitability of China’s rise as a Superpower.

This article was previously published in Modern Diplomacy on July 13, 2025.

An exploration of the current protests in Togo, the background, and the demands that continue the recurrence of the agitations.

How Kenya’s ‘protest goons’ reflect necropolitical control, through the lens of Kill Me Quick and lived realities of systemic youth abandonment, and how this turns youth into disposable political instruments.