William Shoki is editor at Africa Is a Country. He is based in Cape Town.
Last week, Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop announced that his country would no longer recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, throwing Bamako’s weight, instead, behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara. The decision is (…)
In Minab, a small city in southern Iran, 170 children arrived at school on an ordinary morning. By the time the dust settled, at least 148 of them were dead. The missiles that killed them were American. The intelligence that selected the target (…)
Sur tous les continents, une figure familière est revenue dans les rues. Au Népal, de jeunes manifestant·es ont renversé le gouvernement après des années de corruption et de stagnation. Au Maroc, le collectif sans leader « Gen Z 212 » a rempli (…)
Elon Musk’s claim that South Africa’s land expropriation laws are part of a broader attack on the country’s white minority is divorced from reality. But it represents South African elites’ inability to understand the class tensions that define (…)
Although the material basis for today’s non-alignment movement stems from the constraints imposed on the developing world by American economic primacy, counterbalancing Western encirclement need not mean a pivot East. In February, South Africa (…)