Africa

Kenya's Social Health Authority is not a new insurance scheme. It is a biometric-linked population governance infrastructure whose implications extend...

Half a billion Africans live in extreme poverty. This is not a resource deficit, it is a governance architecture built...

South Sudan's collapse exposes the limits of African and UN peacekeeping, a $1.2 billion UNMISS mission that cannot protect civilians.

Ethiopia's distance running dominance is one of Africa's greatest sporting achievements, and one whose structural foundations require active investment to...

Africa's healthcare brain drain is not a migration story. It is a governance failure, powered by electricity crises, broken systems,...

Beneath Africa's parliaments and constitutions runs a parallel architecture of patronage, customary authority, and rentier incentives that decides how power...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are expelling Western forces and declaring sovereignty a governing doctrine. The rupture is real, but...

Fewer than nine per cent of children with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa reach primary school, and the laws meant to...

Treating Africa as a single country is not a careless shorthand. It is a flattening that erases 54 distinct political...

Africa runs the length of the world's most contested corridors, holds the minerals the energy transition needs, and exports more...

Bob Marley's Pan-Africanism was not decorative, it was a coherent political framework that shaped how millions across the continent understood...

Nigeria's recurring fuel tanker explosions are not accidents, they are the predictable output of a petroleum distribution system built on...

Egypt is not sitting on the fence; it is holding the fence together. Cairo has decided, at real cost, that...

Intra-African migration is the continent's largest and most misunderstood economic force. Policy that treats mobility as infrastructure rather than threat...

José Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for thirty-eight years, turning a liberation movement into a dominant-party state built on oil...

Nigeria can announce a 700-kilometre coastal highway and stage the groundbreakings. Whether it can finish what it designs is the...

Tunisia's anti-fake-news decree criminalises information the state deems false, with no independent review of what false means. The prosecutions, over...

Nigeria's coastal highway will get built. The question its contracts quietly answer is whether the country can build the next...

Corruption in Nigeria's National Assembly is not a run of individual scandals. It is the load-bearing design: members financed into...

Nigeria's calls for restructuring expose a constitutional architecture that produces bad leaders by design. The question is not whether to...

Israel's Rafah operation forced African states off careful neutrality. South Africa's ICJ genocide case, not the African Union's declarations, became...

Judicial neutrality in Africa is not a personal virtue but an institutional condition, and the conditions, secure tenure, insulated appointments,...

Frelimo's nomination of a younger Daniel Chapo wagers that a new face can resolve a structural liability: fifty years of...

Nigeria's National Assembly earns 300x the minimum wage while over 40% of citizens live in poverty. Africa360° examines the structural...

Africa's independence was real; the assumption that it transferred economic power was not. The Commonwealth's soft inheritance and Françafrique's hard...

South Africa's 1994 election ended apartheid rule but preserved the economic order beneath it. Political power was won while property,...

Tanzania's journey from Ujamaa socialism to open markets has delivered GDP growth but left unanswered who sets the terms of...

The African Union was built to enforce continental norms its members never intended to be bound by. Its impotence before...

Libya does not know whether it mourns Gaddafi, because he left a personalist state with no bureaucracy to survive him....

The 2019 elections in Senegal and Nigeria tested West Africa's electoral integrity from opposite directions, one through premature victory claims,...