Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. Next week, we will be relaunching FP’s Africa newsletter, written by Nosmot Gbadamosi, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria. Gbadamosi has spent almost a decade reporting from across the continent, covering culture, business, technology, and politics.
Africa Brief will continue to unpack the week’s essential news stories as well as analyze the key issues shaping Africa’s future. We’ll go beyond the usual headlines to look at Africa’s top creative thinkers, offer data insights, and highlight notable investigations by journalists based on the continent.
Check your inbox next Wednesday, and in the meantime, check out recent Africa coverage from FP contributors.
Why Ethiopia Should Trust the West As Ethiopia’s civil war heats up, Doshisha University’s Seifudein Adem urges Ethiopians to have faith in the West’s good intentions—or risk the worst.
In Ethiopia and Sudan, U.S. Policy Needs Less Talk and More Teeth Former U.S. government official Cameron Hudson says the Biden administration needs less rhetoric and more action to avert a disaster.
The Death Penalty Isn’t African. It’s a Legacy of Colonialism. Journalists Caleb Okereke and Patricia Kisesi argue capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination—and all African governments should abolish it.
Tanzanians Are Very Proud of the Nobel Winner We Haven’t Read Tanzanian writer Elsie Eyakuze discusses the significance of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s win in a country where hardly anyone has read his books.
Nigeria’s Cinematic Witches Were Rooted in Horrifying Reality Film critic Bernard Dayo writes that Nollywood’s witches are often rooted in true stories of witch hunts against the poor and vulnerable.
When the Rubber Hits the Road Cambridge University’s Bronwen Everill reviews Gregg Mitman’s new book Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.
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