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Africa
Africa news and analysis from The Nation
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September 17, 2019
Led by the Casablanca polymath Abdelakabir Faradjallah, the band Attarazat Addahabia defined the sound of the city.
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September 9, 2019
How victims of combat in Libya, Afghanistan, and elsewhere carry the memories of war on their bodies.
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September 6, 2019
Zambia and Madagascar are saying no to playing in South Africa as long as anti-immigrant violence is a part of the political picture.
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September 6, 2019
The mainstream media is right to criticize Zimbabwe’s former leader, but wrong to ignore his greatest challenges.
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August 16, 2019
When my relative stabbed PM Hendrik Verwoerd to death, he was described as a “madman”—but he was really trying to bring down apartheid.
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August 12, 2019
Lambert, who died on August 4, was a pioneering LGBT activist who was there to help—even after foreign support dried up.
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July 5, 2019
Overnight, an EU-backed law criminalized the main source of income in the city of Agadez. It didn’t stop migration, but it wrecked the economy.
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July 2, 2019
The Old Drift tells the multigenerational story of Zambia coming into being.
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June 28, 2019
The author of the memoir Lives of Great Men discusses the skewed coverage of gay life in Africa.
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June 21, 2019
Outsiders have both helped and harmed Liberia’s LGBT community.
