
Does China have the power to change governments in Africa?
That China influences ‘regime change’ in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.
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Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.

That China influences ‘regime change’ in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.

The question since the return to civilian rule in Liberia has been how quickly its fragmented institutions could be rebuilt.

Solomon Mahlangu was a famed liberation fighter in South Africa hanged by Apartheid in 1979. His legacy is the subject of a new film.

Why are anti-trafficking campaigns not working? For one, they don’t focus on migrant women’s motives.

Will Germany recognize its brutal, colonial history and how it will mark or memorialize that violent period.

The African Union has made it a policy to challenge unconstitutional transitions of power. Why not in Zimbabwe?

Cape Town has always been like other African cities in how it treats its poorer, black, residents. The water crisis just amplifies these divides.

South Africa’s President carries much hope. But fundamental change requires he radically restructures the state and the economy.

Zimbabwe’s splintered opposition appears poised to be out-maneuvered by the ruling ZANU-PF in elections later this year.

The plight of white South Africans has clearly become the flavor of the month on the far-right.

In the Global North, Africa never inspires radically new terms of representation. It always presents itself as an entity grounded in an anthropological reality.

Long before Walter Rodney wrote ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,’ he was profoundly shaped by his studies in Jamaica.

Why would a group of black, mostly coloured, South African rugby supporters openly root for New Zealand teams over their own.

Black Panther arrives as black America diversifies, but the US becomes more isolationist. It’s not beyond many African Americans to reflect nativist tendencies.

Nigerian Twitter: “If you want to help Libya slaves/immigrants, don’t bring them back home. Help them reach their destination in Europe”

Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard ‘Black Panther’ as a counterrevolutionary film.

The Ethiopia inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism in 1896 was a colonizing state itself.

Jacob Zuma’s nearly decade long regime competed with Thabo Mbeki as the worst presidency of South Africa’s short post-apartheid order.

The attitude that Zimbabweans need to give Mnangagwa a chance and not be quick to criticize, is what led to Mugabe’s dictatorship.

Tsvangirai’s legitimacy was born out of his trusted representation of workers’ interests and the charismatic force of his personality.