The Kenyan court’s decision should be read well beyond Kenya. Across Africa, governments will need to negotiate such arrangements with greater care, more transparency and a firmer sense of constitutional discipline and national interest
African music megastars Tyla and Rema are scheduled to perform at the World Cup’s opening ceremony in Los Angeles. But while African music and soccer are welcome at the tournament, many African fans and journalists, it would seem, are not.
As anti-immigrant tensions continue to simmer across South Africa, the South African Council of Churches has warned that no grievance, however legitimate, can justify violence and intimidation against foreign nationals.
Migration outcomes are largely determined by the quality of the systems into which migrants enter. When any one of the systems underperforms, the pressures become amplified. When several fail simultaneously, migration become politically explosive
For millions of fans, a familiar cloud of anxiety looms — not over tactics or form but over something far more basic: whether players will be paid what they are owed by their football federations
The lack of clarity about which foreigners must go has translated into the victimisation of some who are not targets, including South Africans who look like those who are unwelcome
Julius Malema, a leader who is deeply flawed, stands in this moment as what the abolitionist Henry David Thoreau profoundly described as “a majority of one”, writes Malaika Mahlatsi
Scotland on Tuesday named two uncapped players in their 36-man squad for next month’s inaugural Nations Championship tests against Argentina, South Africa and Fiji.
After five days of police protection at the Mossel Bay Municipality Hall in the Western Cape, Primrose Sibanda finally made it to Zimbabwe unscathed amid xenophobic attacks.
Opposition parties are highlighting the massive gap between the government’s policy goals and its capacity to execute them as it tackles migration management