A ‘simple African’ revolutionary
Amilcar Cabral remains inspirational for Africans and non-Africans challenged by injustice and oppression.
Frelimo
Goodbye Annar Cassam
Chambi Chachage’s tribute to Annar Cassam, assistant to late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and a key figure in anti-colonial movements.
The Two Sudans
During the Cold War, Khartoum was very successful at frustrating solidarity by other Africans for South Sudan's independence struggle.
The insurgency in Cabo Delgado
The climate crisis, resource extraction, and the insurgency by a group claiming affiliation to ISIL in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
Algeria’s forgotten revolutionary history
In the 1960s, Algiers was a beacon for worldwide liberation movements. What happened to its rebellious spirit?
A people cannot bid farewell to their history
Remembering Marcelino dos Santos, founder of Frelimo and the former Vice President of the People’s Republic of Mozambique.
The short, white woman with a South African accent
Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.
Now is our time to tell our own stories
The celebrated Mozambican writer, Mia Cuoto, argues, among others, that it is essential that governments think in terms of the nation, not its elites.
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.
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.
The resilience of culture
The film 'The Sound of Masks' explores dance, memory and the meaning of life, ancestry, culture and political struggle in postcolonial Mozambique.
The Limpopo School
The popular myth holds that most South African major resistance leaders come from its coastal regions. That's not been the case since the mid-1970s.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
The fragility of the Mozambican state
Cyclone Idai exposed a state weakened by an extractivist development model and captured by global capital, exposing ordinary Mozambicans.
The untimely death of Afonso Dhlakama
Mozambicans feel the death of the former leader of Renamo could put a wrench in the path towards a peaceful, democratic future.
Populism as politics in Southern Africa
In Southern Africa, former liberation movements reclaim ownership over history and society not by seeking but by remaining in power.
In a film about war, can you leave out the politics?
The violence of Mozambique's civil war between 1976 and 1992 is generally silenced. Very little of the war’s history has been written down.
Is environmental philanthropy still a white man’s game?
The dominant approach to revitalizing national parks is one-dimensional and sees local residents as obstacles rather than partners.
Black Fire
When Cape Jazz found a perfect mix with R&B, fusion and pop.
The long short history of Angola-Israel relations
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.