When sewage floods your home, it floods your mind too
If you visit Mukuru kwa Reuben (Mukuru for short) on the southern edge of Nairobi, the guide you want is Francis Mukiri Muthoni, aka “Future”, a man dedicated... Read more.
‘The law is clear’: Sasha Stevenson fights back as vigilantes try to keep migrants out of clinics
SECTION27’s offices are situated on De Korte Street in Braamfontein, a stone’s throw from the University of the Witwatersrand’s main campus and more or less... Read more.
What years of war, cyclones and displacement have wrought to people of northern Mozambique
“Companheiros! Companheiras!” shouts a man called Enric, standing on a covered septic tank in the parking lot of the Pensão Vincente in Chiúre. It is the morning... Read more.
Somebody call Hasina Subedar, the brain behind our LEN rollout
Amidst the mostly depressing HIV headlines of recent times, concerned as they mainly are with the deadly impacts of donor defunding, South Africa’s imminent roll-out... Read more.
The spirits, the marabouts, and the eleven psychiatrists in Burkina Faso
An interesting conversation took place in the Beneb Souka Hotel in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, in August 2025. It happened over fried sides of a fish known here as... Read more.
