Africa is also often cited as holding around 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, one reason the continent matters so much to future food systems. These figures do not simply represent economic progress. They represent potential. They are reminders that the continent is not waiting for others to build its future. It is already doing so.
Biometric digital identification systems are often promoted as tools to improve efficiency, inclusion and service delivery. But a new report highlights serious concerns about exclusion, rights violations, data protection and accountability.
What legal frameworks govern presidential succession in South Sudan?
Most books on public finance are written by men, from institutions in the global north, about systems designed in the global north. There is not a single comprehensive treatment of public finance law focused on Kenya or, for that matter, on any African country. I wanted to change that.
From the Sahel to Somalia, weapons and equipment supplied from abroad breaks down quickly, sits idle for lack of maintenance, or requires expertise that local forces are not trained to sustain.
Acoziborole will allow doctors to reach the most remote areas, where the last remaining pockets of the disease are. In 1998, nearly 40,000 cases were reported across Africa, and experts believe more than 300,000 others were never diagnosed.
Laws were passed to fight domestic violence, rape and teen pregnancy. But drawing on colonial legal models, the reforms don’t always match social realities and in many cases are harming young people from poor communities. Punishment is being made more important than resolution or education.
The African Union held its 39th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2026. The two-day assembly produced the usual number of decisions and declarations across African peace and security, trade, governance and development. Such gatherings, however, can feel distant from the everyday realities of African citizens. They are a showcase of high-level diplomacy that can feel far removed from public life.
My book sits wrapped in brown paper on my lap. Precursor. Six years of composition while dana’s mind performed its cartridge of forgetting. Now it exists bound, physical and bearing her name in the dedication. I spent the night touching the cover, feeling sick with accomplishment and loss, that particular nausea of creating something permanent while watching someone become provisional. Even before the city’s humidity thickens at the edges of the lake, the nights behind me stack themselves into brittle plates. Nights of drafting and tearing, revising, arguing with ghosts, wondering whether memory is a rope or a river. I bring all that restlessness into this homecoming. I am gut-full with joy-grief and the double-edged brightness of knowing she will finally hold what I’ve spent years breathing toward.
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