Yusuf Ahmad is a researcher specializing in Africa and the Middle East. He has lived and worked extensively across the continent and holds two master’s degrees in African history and anthropology.

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In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, ...

Sam Chian teaches economics and social studies at an upper secondary school in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He ...

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.

The ability of African leaders to go rogue and begin looking at policies that benefit their people even at the expense of Western interests is growing while Western countries are not able to push back ...

Millennials have their versions of lost innocence: 2007 and 2017, the seismic years of post-election violence. And now, watching you Gen Zs, I see that same flicker of dawning realization in your eyes ...

The online and offline agitation by the Gen Z cluster has forced the centres of power and political negotiations to grapple with their relevance, function, even as the political class try to ...

Puntland is showing that a military with limited resources and manpower can defeat global terrorists by relying on grassroots community mobilisation.

Decarbonization is a major response to climate change mitigation in the 21st century. However, our research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows that the pursuit of decarbonization is ...

The warring factions in Sudan have adopted ecocide as a tactic of war, targeting environmental resources with catastrophic results for food and water security.

Documenting Sheng, the constantly evolving language of the youth of Kenya’s ghettos, has been Duncan Ongweno’s calling and his life’s work.