From Mogadishu to Toronto
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Partway through Hassan Ghedi Santur’s new novel The Youth of God, eighteen-year-old Nuur sits alone in

Skin politics in northern Ghana
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Between the years 2007 and 2012 alone, the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) draft report for

LAND MATRIX - The Online Public Database on Land Deals
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The Land Matrix is a global and independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over land and investment.

This website is our Global Observatory - an open tool for collecting and visualising information about large-scale land acquisitions.

The data represented here is constantly evolving; to make this resource more accurate and comprehensive, we encourage your participation.

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Gender in Cameroon’s anglophone crises
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Women have undertaken measures to cope and resist against the backdrop of Anglophone—Francophone tensions in Cameroon,

Coming to voice in Cuba
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The history of the black body in Cuba is one deeply interconnected with slavery, exploitation, systems

African homophobia and the colonial intervention of African conservatism
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A petition to decriminalize sexual acts between people of the same sex was recently rejected by

Invisible voices in the production of knowledge
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In early 2018, a group of 30 researchers based in eastern Congo and Europe who all

After the scramble
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In August of 2018, the Ethiopian government “requested” Britain’s National Army Museum to return two locks

In Uganda, posting a poem about Museveni gets you jailed
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The opening lines of a poem written by Dr Stella Nyanzi and posted on Facebook in

A remarkable celebration of African cinema
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The New York African Film Festival debuted in 1993. This year marked the 26th edition of the

419 myopia
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Last year, British-Nigerian actor John Boyega was in Lagos to promote his film, Pacific Rim Uprising.

Blind to the matatu
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Strikes against new regulations and reforms of Nairobi’s matatu sector by its workforce are nothing

Running is work
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“Running is work,” our narrator, a young Biruk Fikadu, tells us in the introductory sequence to

We are all Haitians
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The passing of J. Michael Dash on June 2 in New York City has left the

The crisis of Ghana’s fisheries
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The fisheries sector in Ghana, beset with overfishing and a dramatic depletion of stocks, is facing

Scenes from a Dry City
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The documentary film, Scenes from a Dry City, can feel disorientating. It jolts viewers from shot

Are the Russians forging an ’empire’ in Africa?
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The cover of a recent issue of Time magazine left little to imagination. It featured a menacing looking president of Russia, Vladimir

Religion and conflict in Cameroon
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Much has been written about the ongoing conflict over the status of the Southern Cameroons. The genesis of the conflict and the issues

Judgement Day
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Around this time last year, Egyptian film Yomeddine (Judgement Day) was screened at Cannes Film Festival to great

When the ‘President of the rich’ met the ‘Black President’
▻https://africasacountry.com/2019/06/when-the-president-of-the-rich-met-the-black-president

On July 8 2018, the day following Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the New Afrika Shrine—an historic

Decolonizing the museum
▻https://africasacountry.com/2019/05/decolonizing-the-museum

Since reopening in December 2018, after five years of renovations, Belgium’s Central-Africa museum has again sparked

The complicated political legacy of Jerry Rawlings
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Jerry John Rawlings has long held a complicated place in Ghanaian popular politics and historical memory. On May

Senegalese activists persevere despite setback
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In late 2011 and early 2012, the collective known as Y’en a Marre (We’re fed up/Enough

How the left can rescue Nigeria in 2023
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On May 29, 2019, the Nigerian state will roll out the drum to celebrate two important

Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s queerness
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Binyavanga Wainaina owed much to Nairobi, the Capital city of Sheng. He soaked himself in Sheng, a mixture