• Benjamin Talton

Thomas Sankara has emerged as both a lesson on the uncertainties of revolutionary change and the possibilities for people-centered development for the present and future.

• Francisco Perez

Are plans for ‘reform’ of West African currency, fueled by anticolonial sentiment, merely ‘rebranding’ the status quo?

• Olivier van Beemen

Multinational corporations are considered motors for development in Africa and the Dutch beer giant Heineken is often cited as one of the best examples. The reality is different and distressing.

• Elizabeth Schmidt

Foreign support for governments that benefit privileged elites and their external backers perpetuate violence and instability. It won't be any different for Latin American countries like Venezuela.

• Robert Heinze

The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.

• Alex Park

Pith helmets and jodhpurs aside, Melania Trump went to four African countries to promote her "Be Best" education initiative. What's that about?

• Philip Janzen

Today marks ten years since Aimé Césaire's death. What would he have thought about the state of the former French colonies today?

• Omolade Adunbi

• Oumar Ba

Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?

• Corinna Jentzsch

Germany's a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.