
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat
As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.
As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.
Protests against Togo's ruling family aren't unusual, but this time there's a few unusual components, including that the protesters have a clear platform of demands.
Daniel arap Moi perfected rigging and state violence as politics. Uhuru Kenyatta campaigned with them and will extend and complete them in his second term.
Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.
That the recent revolutions failed to transcend political stagnation, is a product of the way neoliberalism functions as an ideology.
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.
After an 11-year wait to vote in my own country, the whole thing took 3 minutes. One week later I'm still waiting to hear who won.
How easily white landowners in Kenya can utilize the trope of "the maddened land invader" to conjure global support for an unequal land system.
In much Algerian discourse, including by its human rights NGO's, black Africans are pathologized as disease carriers.
There is a worrisome, undue accent on ethnic and sub-ethnic affiliations deserving scrutiny in Nigeria. Until
It is difficult to find a credible Left political party or tendency within or outside the existing mainstream political structure in Nigeria.
Human rights cannot offer a framework for humanizing the non-human savage - the non-human black body - because it is not designed to do so.
Peace narratives cover up the need to address historical injustice and end a culture of impunity dating back to the days of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta and continuing via his son, President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Paul Kagame has won with more than 90 percent of the vote in 3 successive presidential elections in Rwanda.
Whoever wins the election, must protect refugees agains forced repatriation by the state or spontaneous attacks from partisan electoral violence.
Improving socio-economic conditions may prove to be the precondition for fighting corruption.
South Africa may be Kabila’s closest bilateral ally and represents a key lifeline for his continued grip on power.
The largest South Sudanese rebel movement is now in a leadership dispute proving more pernicious than Khartoum’s counter-insurgency strategies.
There are Namibians, including Black Namibians, who resist fully addressing the genocide.
Why is Liberia’s Government rushing to sell its public schools to for-profits from the United States?