Articles, videos and podcasts

Choose a category and browse our curated collection of articles, videos and podcasts from media professionals and others as they weigh in on the state of Africa’s free press.

North Africa: Regulating social media in a contested online civic space 

North Africa: Regulating social media in a contested online civic space 

Letter to the Editor from an African Queer

Letter to the Editor from an African Queer

Digital authoritarians attack African online spaces

Digital authoritarians attack African online spaces

Women, culture, war and media: Sticking out in Mogadishu 

Women, culture, war and media: Sticking out in Mogadishu 

Rejecting the ‘politics of respectability’

Rejecting the ‘politics of respectability’

Conversations of Home: Connecting to home, identity and self, through new media platforms 

Conversations of Home: Connecting to home, identity and self, through new media platforms 

Exiled for offending the King 

Exiled for offending the King 

Media policy and reform in a political transition: The Case of Ethiopia

Media policy and reform in a political transition: The Case of Ethiopia