BOOKS

How did a profession once centered on patient care become a profit-maximizing business—one that has generated soaring costs, increasingly poor access, and healthcare outcomes far below    More >

Since the 1990s, the US use of economic sanctions as a tool of statecraft has exploded—and both third-party states and the targets themselves have developed a range of    More >

Nizar Kabbani’s poetry speaks of love, desire, beauty, freedom, and longing with a directness that is as fresh today as when it was first written. His poems have been described as    More >

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela commissioned the first HIV household survey in South Africa, this latest data collection undertaken by the Human Sciences Research Council and its partners    More >

Spanning Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone contexts—including conflict-affected and refugee settings—Joseph Pesambili and Marcina Singh offer a critical, evidence-based    More >

While fragile countries around the world have reverted to conflict soon after the achievement of a purported peace deal, how have both Liberia and Sierra Leone maintained a relative, if    More >

Why are so many South African children leaving the early grades unable to read or do basic arithmetic, and what does this say about how we train their teachers? Tackling these questions    More >

A shifting global order. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The emergence of an African "coup belt." Increasingly pressing environmental issues. These are just some of the    More >

With climate change reshaping the global landscape—straining alliances, revealing new areas for exploitation, igniting new flashpoints—are prevailing theories of international    More >

Emerging scholars from across Africa ask critical questions about the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). For example: How can AfCFTA move beyond rhetoric to boost    More >