
The Interregnum in Zimbabwe
This is no revolution—just an internal ZANU-PF matter. One-party rule and military control remain intact; the military and party leadership are effectively one and the same.
This is no revolution—just an internal ZANU-PF matter. One-party rule and military control remain intact; the military and party leadership are effectively one and the same.
In Southern Africa, former liberation movements reclaim ownership over history and society not by seeking but by remaining in power.
And, the terrible experience of Tanzanian women in Oman and the United African Emirates.
Zimbabwe is the fourth country in Southern Africa to have a post-independence coup. (The others are
Since the beginning of 2017, the frequency and lethalness of al-Shabaab’s attacks inside Somalia have reached
The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.
On the morning of October 18th, I woke up to a message from a friend in
Many white South Africans are doing all they can to maintain racial inequalities and white privilege. It's a recipe for disaster. Hopefully they get it before it’s too late.
Also meet the man who drove Malcolm X around in New York City and introduced him to Fidel Castro.
Rwanda’s president has long practiced a zero-sum political game in which he and his cronies are the primary winners.
Abdul Hakeem, in his 80s has lived in Morocco for over thirty two years, where he raised a family and runs two Aikido dojos.
In death, Fela Kuti is being rehabilitated by Nigeria's government. It may all be a false note.
Amilcar Cabral and the liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism.
Including another worrying thread of the American "war on terror" on the continent: the training of vigilantes.
It would be an understatement to sum it up as a tragic tale.
Including, it will come as no shock to any woman that Cairo is ranked the worst city for women in the world.
There is considerably less sustained outcry on social media about African life in relation to ongoing forms of structural violence that may be more mundane but just as deadly.
Liberians and the footballing world seem eager to coronate George Weah, Africa’s only winner of the World Player of the Year award as the country's next president.
In today’s Eritrea, there is no difference between the jailer and the jailed. The political culture is so violent and desperate that the
Few places in the world have taken a beating like South Sudan. How did it come to this?