The essay explores medical migration across Africa, examining how unequal access to healthcare shapes mobility, citizenship, and belonging, while considering the body as a site where political and economic borders become materially inscribed. Through the stories of Kamau and Dr. David, we come to understand the mid-level health workers who form the actual spine of clinical care in Kenya and the masses of Kenyans that eventually make it to their clinics. 

Debunking Kenya’s framing as Singapore through analysis of the former’s position in the global economy relative to the latter, Campbell calls for a serious reflection of what distinguishes economic transformations in South East Asia from Nairobi’s subordinated integration that continues to inhibit regional economic growth and produce genocidal violence. 

Pheko critically assesses the political economy of football, the production and capture of value and Africa’s place in the football business. Afrika produces world-class football capability but the institutions that commercialise, govern and retain the game’s greatest economic value remain concentrated elsewhere.

Mohammed links increased personal taxation in Ethiopia to the arc of extraction from slavery to IMF austerity, and highlights a path toward African economic sovereignty.

Campbell critically assesses the development of the world’s first trillionaire following the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history as a reflection of the deepening crisis of finance capitalism, which has become a brake on real socioeconomic development and continues to starve the real economy of productive industrial investment. 

Across Global Africa, people's lives are shaped by border regimes, whose contradictions are played out in arenas such as football and reflected in tensions between contribution and precarity. Issue 925 of Pambazuka News explores different and too often violent realities of movement and migration of Global Africans.

An analysis of the European Union’s systematic externalization of migration management onto African states, showing how externalization constitutes a neocolonial project rooted in a governmentality of unease. Drawing on cases from Libya to Mauritania, it critiques EU aid conditionality and securitization discourse, and advocates for Pan African institutional alternatives centered on human security.

A critical examination of South Africa’s anti-migrant tensions, neoliberal political economy, and the selective critique of African intellectual traditions within contemporary liberal policy discourse.

African governments are positioned in an international system that cripples their autonomy through economic coercions such as debt regulation and overall asymmetric diplomatic relations. Nonetheless, the decision to accept and enforce migration governance frameworks that are harmful to Africans and migrants globally, demonstrates their agency and deserves scrutiny.

The conditions of migrants, produced by the unequal development and structural inequality of contemporary capitalism, should not be met with criminalization and securitization. Understanding migration through Marxist political economy and decolonial frameworks, not only allows us to understand mobility as rational human right, but it also allows us to harness the benefits of migration, in congruence with Pan African solidarity.   

A critique of the neoliberal framework inducing health worker migration. Brain drain from Africa is an extractive process that subsidizes affluent nations at the cost of African lives. Systemic inequities and geopolitical crises coerce migration and undermine the health security of the African continent. The article calls for a radical redesign of the global health market.

A May Day call to working peoples not to despair but instead organize.

Global gold prices have surged; how are imperial powers and war actors exploiting these price increases, and what are the implications for Africa’s political economy?

This week, the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will again be held in Washington, DC, with back-slapping now that the Bretton Woods twins have reached age 75 (they were founded at a New Hampshire hotel in 1944). And with more passion than in recent years, there will be protests, especially climate activists on Friday [18 October] at noon with a strong set of messages, to “end all funding for fossil fuels!”

To halt the decision to extradite Mozambique’s former Finance minister, Manuel Chang, could be a test case for President Ramaphosa’s long-term ability to bring about real change in South Africa’s regional relations by potentially making it a good example for the fight against corruption.

This article is part of the author’s research that explores trade and investments, trade policies and China’s domestic and overseas political economy.

Market women carry on Haiti’s irrepressible fight for human dignity and freedom.

Over the years, Russia and the Republic of Congo have had good bilateral relations. Undoubtedly, there are still prospects for strengthening these relations, especially in the economic and security spheres, as underlined during the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Denis Sassou-Nguesso in the Kremlin.ce

Autopsy reveals Lonmin—the British-South African company—corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance. 

In a few days, the world’s third largest platinimum mining house, Lonmin, will likely be remembered as the exemplar of multinational corporate irresponsibility. As a people’s trial hosted by the Marikana Solidarity Network gets underway outside Carlton House Terrace in London, where Lonmin’s shareholders vote on a friendly takeover deal (albeit with extremely dubious characteristics), many critics are shaking their heads – and fists – at the extraordinary financial and political circumstances.