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For a new exhibition in Paris, the artist Kehinde Wiley, widely known for his portrait of President Obama, has created a series of paintings of African

On September 28, 2022, the Guinean judicial authorities opened a long-delayed trial of 11 men – among them former government ministers and a former president – accused of responsibility for the 2009 Guinean security forces’ massacre of more than 150 peaceful demonstrators and rapes of scores of women in a stadium in Conakry, the capital. The trial is the first of its kind involving human rights violations on this scale before domestic courts in Guinea.

Amid recurring U.N. speeches and diatribes, Africa faces the imperative of self-directed development, demanding shifts in governance paradigms and...

Mr. Wiley, famous for his portrait of former President Obama, is now showing paintings of 11 current and former African heads of state. “This is not a celebration of individual leadership,” he said.

Since gaining independence, Africa has tested different governance systems, including democracy, with mixed results. The Guinean president criticized

“It is time to stop lecturing us and stop treating us with condescension like children.”

July’s coup in Niger took observers by surprise, though it was West Africa’s sixth coup in the past three years. Do these military takeovers share common causes and Anne-Cécile Robert with Le Monde Diplomatique…

By Olakunle Mohammed's A month after Niger’s military takeover, it triggered diplomatic, political, and economic crises. The Niger and Gabon coups, like

Nothing happens by chance in politics. The French don’t understand why French-speaking Africans suddenly reject them. They console (...) [Voltaire Network ]

Euphemisms used by the Western powers are testimony to the complexity of the phenomenon