Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2001). In…

Much of the rich recent scholarship on urban Africa focuses primarily on the city scale, prioritizing questions of municipal administration, […]

Celebrations as flight carries dozens of passengers from Port Sudan to Sudanese capital.

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” because their traditions spanned both religions.

Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.

The man whose political career defined Kenya’s multiparty politics

The 20th-century Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah saw an opportunity to move Africa past the fragmentation left behind by colonial powers.

The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.

One of Khartoums oldest and most loved hotels has survived coups, wars, and even a bomb attack, but it couldn't weather Sudan's civil war.

WRAL has obtained a letter from the faculty chair to the dean and chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill expressing concern about a lack of tenure for certain professors.

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How are ethnicity, citizenship, and social class articulated spatially in the postcolonial African metropolis over time? In this article, I examine the metamorp...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 5 – Renowned human rights lawyer and Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee has died, fellow lawyers have confirmed. MP and fellow lawyer Otiende Amolo expressed his sorrow in a post on X, saying:
“Quite saddened to learn that my senior, Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee has passed on! A quintessential advocate who presented the best […]

Building the City from Below: Toward a Citizen-Centered City-Making

The warning comes as Africa begins to feel the impact of a massive review into US aid by Trump.

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