The African subject—not necessarily the political elite—is trapped in an endless and heated loop of meaningless negotiations over terms such as democracy, human rights, constitutionalism, and...
It is more helpful, more liberating, for Africans to see themselves from the vantage point of the pugilist on the other side—as a country.
In an act that should be seen as revolutionary, Africans are moving to the centre to benefit from the resources that continue to be extracted from...
The aspiration for common ground and common values is merely a delusion of those of military might. The less powerful retain a great deal of agency...
Framing coups in juxtaposition with electoral democracies is not only simplistic but is also distractive in the sense that it reduces coups to just a mode...
Yusuf Serunkuma asks how the continued and violent colonisation of the continent has not been more systematically resisted. In a long-read, Serunkuma looks at the extraordinary...
In a far-reaching long-read, writer and commentator Yusuf Serunkuma argues that ‘democracy’ in Africa is not just a language of (colonial) exploitation, it is the practice...