Stories from Across the Continent

An introduction: what does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? Eight countries. Countless stories. African voices reframe a planetary crisis.

Climate Debt, Colonial Debt, and Repair: from household finance to sovereign debt, African communities bear the cost of a global financial system not built for them.

African artists in the Anthropocene: across the continent, artists navigate disappearing materials, digital tools, and political risk to imagine new futures from what remains.

Disability and Climate Change in Kenya: climate disasters, crumbling infrastructure, and economic precarity compound the daily realities of disabled people across Africa.

Birth, Memory, and Climate Crisis: pollution, displacement, and extreme heat are reshaping pregnancy, fertility, and access to care for women across eight countries.

Farmers in the Anthropocene: across the continent, the same arithmetic is repeating. Broken seasons, shrinking water, and a market that rewards the trader over the grower.

Fishers in the Anthropocene: the craft of fishing is a kind of inheritance, generations deep, that this episode follows across four countries as the sea itself becomes less and less predictable.

The construction boom in the Anthropocene: this episode moves between Somalia, Nigeria, and Tanzania to trace what concrete does to a body, a neighborhood, a history. There is still time to build cities for the people who live in them.