Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine
Salimah Valiani’s beautiful, insightful anthology explores Johannesburg and its inhabitants
African societies are organised around the requirements of duty, while Western societies are organised around individual rights
Locally-driven global health solutions work best and decisions need to be taken as close as possible to the people affected by the health problems
To force a climate breakthrough, leaders must listen to and promote the stories of young people
Wealthy countries were quick to ban Southern African nations from entering their borders when the Omicron variant was identified, but did not do so to each other.
Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone
In deciding how the world responds to the climate crisis, policymakers rely on research that tends to be written predominantly by men in the Global North
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north
A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global South
A more explicit emphasis on the national interest may encourage donor countries to play ‘the long game’ in Africa
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Measures need to lay the foundations of a new economy and society post the pandemic
This is no time to snigger at the high rates of coronavirus in the Global North. We could be just as hard hit — and it is poor people who will suffer the most
Binyavanga Wainaina was an exceptional writer, activist and human being