The Erasure of Dulcie September
South African activist Dulcie September would have turned 84 today had she not been assassinated in March 1988. The podcast series They Killed Dulcie revisits the murder and her legacy.
Politics
Long live Ruth First
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on this day, 17 August, in 1982.
The ghost battalion
On the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) the organized force behind the revolutionary uprising in Sudan.
The manifestation of climate injustice
Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, we highlight the effects climate changes will have on communities in informal urban areas.
‘We are now treated the same as men. We have exactly the same rights’
How women farm workers in North Africa, specifically Morocco, are achieving justice on the job.
Silencing the national anthem
Last month the government of South Sudan passed a decree that the national anthem could not be sung not in the presence of the President. What could be behind this decision?
Frankenstein’s monster in Khartoum
On Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemitti, the man behind the massacres against Sudanese protesters.
The South of Algeria has something to say
While protests in the north of Algeria grabs headlines today, protest and dissent in the Algerian Sahara have been going on for decades.
Decolonizing Africa’s past
On national anniversaries and democratic survival.
Sport, history and politics at the African Cup of Nations
How AFCON 2019 showed up Arab-African identity and cultural politics between North Africa and countries south of the Sahara.
Waterless scars and pipe dreams in Nairobi
Poor Nairobi residents pay close to four times more for water that is much less clean, adequate or consistent.
Drones over Djibouti
Investments in military infrastructure by global powers, such as China and the United States, have increased on the African continent in recent years.
Mozambique is a Dutch business
Development aid and promoting the foreign interests of Dutch businesses like Shell and Heineken are coupled in the world's fifth poorest nation. Critics aren't convinced it's a good deal.
Neoliberalism and the march of impunity in Equatorial Guinea
How does the world's longest serving autocrat remain in power?
Justice in the Sahel
How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.
What role for the Black American Left on Sudan?
The American website Black Agenda Report commented on the protests in Sudan and got it completely wrong.
What is universal about the Algerian national ‘Hirak’?
The peaceful nature of the massive protests against Algeria's undemocratic regime signals the universal reclamation of the people's right to perform who they are and who they want to be.
All of them must go
The Hirak, how the current contemporary liberation movement is known, gives Algerians a renewed sense of purpose.
Solidarity with Sudan begins at home
A guide on how to support the uprising in Sudan.
Does the deal in Sudan represent an actual democratic transition?
The power sharing agreement between Sudan's military rulers and the opposition aside, at present there are two main possibilities for Sudan.