Labor pains
Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.
Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.
Chile’s march to a progressive constitution and egalitarian transformation has stalled. What can movements in the Global South learn?
Kenya’s cost of living demonstrations have as much to do with popular discontent as they do with the opposition capitalizing on frustrations.
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The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.
The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.
Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.
Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.
Omar al Bashir has fallen in Khartoum. Beyond regime change—managed by the military—there's a deeper economic crisis.
Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn't always a good thing.
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
The Congo is a generous purveyor of African stereotypes, often making it difficult to see the politics through the thickets of hyperbole.
Whatever we make of the Ethiopian government’s prevarication, the Irreechaa Massacre was a point of no return for the people.
Zimbabwe is going through an evolution, not a revolution. Over the past few weeks, pundits and
The Bongo family has ruled the central African country of Gabon uninterrupted for 49 years. This
In Zimbabwe, the leap from online conversation to citizen protest has followed the same path as other protest movements around the world.
Following weeks of public demonstrations against corruption, bad governance and a rapidly deteriorating economy, people all
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
In 1967, West Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment. In September of that year, socialist students
To quote an old adage by the late Steve Biko: the Swazi workers are on their own.