This year was an important one for the blog. We passed four million total readers since we first launched just over a decade ago, which is a milestone of which we are extremely proud.

In that time some topics have proved evergreen. Articles on Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa continue to draw significant readership, while subjects such as Artificial Intelligence have grown in importance.

One topic that has remained of interest, but with ever-shifting contours, is the relationship between Africa and China. The blog has published extensively on this over the years but in 20024 we ran a blog series examining the issues of geopolitics, ODA, and race that go into shaping Africa-China relations. You can read all our work on the subject here.

We finished our previous series on Ubuntu earlier this year. The series included an article by Muxe Nkondo who sadly passed away in August. You can read his contribution to the blog here.

This year also saw the launch of the Hub for African Thought, which aims to showcase the contribution of African thinkers to global academia. On the Hub, you can find profiles of canonical thinkers, Q&As with professors, and reading lists of African authors on specific subjects from post-colonial theory to queer studies.

If you would like to write for the blog next year or would like to suggest a reading list or a thinker to profile on the Hub please reach out to us at africa@lse.ac.uk.

See you in 2025!