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Africa

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of politics, history, and economics across the African continent—from Kenya to Nigeria, Algeria, and Zimbabwe.

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Africa’s Ukraine Dilemma

Why the Continent Is Caught Between Russia and the West

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Ethiopia After the War

Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État

Two Books on Nigeria

The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa

Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and Development

Africa’s Past Is Not Its Future

Africa’s Ukraine Dilemma

How America Can Foster an African Boom

Africa Throws Off Colonial Rule

Rebels Without a Cause

African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces

African Peacekeeping

The End of the Middle East

Africa’s Fossil-Fuel Trap

Russia Has Big Plans for Africa

Burundi’s Vicious Crackdown Never Ended

China’s Soft-Power Advantage in Africa

The Islamic State in Africa: The Emergence, Evolution, and Future of the Next Jihadist Battlefront

How to Pull Ethiopia Back From the Brink

Can Ethiopia Survive?

How to Vaccinate Africa

Africa Is Changing—and U.S. Strategy Is Not Keeping Up

The Divestment Delusion

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family’s Quest for a Country to Call Home

Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa

The COVID Charter

Two Books on U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa

South Sudan’s Dismal Tenth Birthday

The Promise of Africa’s “Youth Bulge”

A Truly International Criminal Court

The Giant of Africa Is Failing

Darfur Is Bleeding Again

Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History

The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia—and What It Should Avoid

Foreign Affairs LIVE With Ty McCormick

Ethiopia’s Perilous Propaganda War

Great-Power Competition Is Coming to Africa

African Europeans: An Untold History

The West Helped Cripple Uganda’s Democracy

Abiy Ahmed’s Crisis of Legitimacy

Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley’s Long Shadow

Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

Somalia Must Learn to Stand Alone

Ethiopia’s Dangerous Slide Toward Civil War

If America Were in Africa

Two Books on Ghana

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

U.S. Africa Policy Needs a Reset

Mali’s Coup Could Destabilize the Sahel

The Terrorist Threat Is Not Finished

U.S. Policy Toward Africa: Eight Decades of Realpolitik

Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan: Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival

When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland

The World: A Brief Introduction

Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel

Why Kenyans Are Protesting Police Brutality at Home and Abroad

All Epidemiology Is Local

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

When the Pandemic Hits the Most Vulnerable

Africa’s Totalitarian Temptation: The Evolution of Autocratic Regimes

Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies

Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

The Quality of Growth in Africa

Striking Oil Ain’t What It Used to Be

How to Stop Libya’s Collapse

Africa’s Slums Aren’t Harbingers of Anarchy—They’re Engines of Democracy

China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet

Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed

The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent

African Americans and Africa: A New History

Peace Is a Losing Strategy in Mozambique

History Repeats Itself in Zimbabwe

How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa

African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church

What Happens in Sudan Doesn’t Stay in Sudan

Africa’s Democratic Moment?

People Power Is Rising in Africa

Libya’s Perpetual Chaos

Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics

Electoral Politics in Africa Since 1990: Continuity in Change

Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment

The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa

African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe

Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding

The Retreat of African Democracy

Red Sea Rivalries

Trump’s Africa Policy Is Destined for Failure

Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century

Africa Through an Economic Lens

Is Libya Finally Ready for Peace?

African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms

Can Nigeria Solve Its Energy Crisis?

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