protests – Africa is a Country

The Bongo family has ruled the central African country of Gabon uninterrupted for 49 years. This past August, President …

Late last week, President Robert Mugabe mocked the protest movement that has risen against his governance over the past …

Following weeks of public demonstrations against corruption, bad governance and a rapidly deteriorating economy, people …

2015 has been the year for student activism in South Africa. These spaces have been reignited with a new sense of strugg…

In 1967, West Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment. In September of that year, socialist students tore down the mo…

On Sunday there were no reports of teargas, arrests and beating of democracy activists in Swaziland. Having worked with …

In today’s news, the mainstream Brazilian media try their hardest to illustrate that protests against, and calls f…

There has been an increase in protest activity across sub-Saharan Africa recently: Burkina Faso’s citizen uprising domin…

In October, Brazil went through its closest presidential elections since 1989–51.6% to 48.4%. The winner was the incumbe…

“It would be necessary not only to wash the floor: the memory it would demand to remove sight to all we saw, to murder t…

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