The Obama Sevens
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
For one, their original crime: Gathering as a book club and reading the books 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' and 'Tools to Destroy a Dictator and Avoid a New Dictatorship.'
I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza's approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.
In Morocco, the real story is once more that of women organizing, pushing back and pushing forward, creating new spaces precisely where others try to shut them down.
Black people should not be held not responsible for the social limits and ideologies undergirding legal structures.
The astonishing lengths to which the South African state went to demean and diminish Marikana miners, dead and living, and their loved ones.
During a visit to Durban Pride, the authors conclude that democracy feels strange. For one, it feels like increased LGBTI visibility and increased backlash.
Every so often efforts are made to justify the world’s obsession with football by casting it
Should the South African government have arrested Sudan's President Omar al Bashir?
In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.
The only safe thing to talk about in Eritrea, is football. Even the President watches football and is a public Arsenal fan.
Ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
“Load shedding” is a nice South African term for daily deliberate shutdown of electricity supply in
In 1967, West Germany had its own #RhodesMustFall moment. In September of that year, socialist students
Last week in Lesotho, opposition leaders Tom Thabane and Thesele ‘Maseribane fled to Botswana and South
International oil giants are bearing down on East Africa. Off the coast of Tanzania, the discovery
Often championed as a human rights defender, the Netherlands continuously fails miserably in politically protecting and socially including refugees.
When are African states establishing joint military bases to secure trade routes or fight off piracy instead of diversifying the source of foreign influence on their territories?
To bear witness to the cacophony of Rhodes Must Fall, as though trying to recall the days of a revolution I was born too late to witness.
How did Burundi go from being the hallmark of power-sharing success to an increasingly polarized country?