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Abroni K Thomas

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      African woman
      Politics and Society2 weeks ago

      All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors

      Nairobi protests
      Politics and Society4 weeks ago

      The failure of centralized power across the planet is upon us

      The results of a Bushman patrol: a postcard shows German soldiers posing with captured Indigenous people. Courtesy Robert J. Gordon
      Politics and Society1 month ago

      Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule

      Politics and Society1 month ago

      A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened

      Politics and Society1 month ago

      Leadership Beyond Politicians, Politricks and Popularity Contests: Building a Future of Abundance Through UTU Principles

      Politics and Society2 months ago

      Understanding Constructivist Pan-Africanism

      Africans rising3 months ago

      The Mask is Off. Why Kenyan #GenZs are Rising Against a Regime Stuck in its Colonial Past

      Politics and Society3 months ago

      The silence that dictatorship taught us

      Politics and Society3 months ago

      Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power

      Politics and Society3 months ago

      Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what has taken its place?

      Politics and Society3 months ago

      Reelecting William Samoei Ruto

      Politics and Society4 months ago

      Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them

      Politics and Society4 months ago

      On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency

      Politics and Society4 months ago

      Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

      Ngugi Wa Thiong'o at the 2016 Ake Festival . Photo Credit: Hamed Adedeji
      Arts, Culture and Sport4 months ago

      Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary

      Scaling up the EU’s response to soaring hunger in West Africa
      Politics and Society5 months ago

      How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector?

      Arts, Culture and Sport5 months ago

      Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2

      Arts, Culture and Sport5 months ago

      Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

      Arts, Culture and Sport5 months ago

      Five things you should know about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time

      Politics and Society5 months ago

      Africa Liberation Week 2025: Africans Rising to host over 850 Actions

      A person reading the bible
      African identities3 years ago

      What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe

      African identities2 years ago

      Being queer in Africa: the state of LGBTIQ+ rights across the continent

      The annual gay pride parade in Entebbe, Uganda, in 2014.
      African identities2 years ago

      US talks sanctions against Uganda after a harsh anti-gay law – but criminalizing same-sex activities has become a political tactic globally

      LGBTQ+ rights: African Union watchdog goes back on its own word
      African identities3 years ago

      LGBTQ+ rights: African Union watchdog goes back on its own word

      Scholar-activist W.E.B. DuBois in 1946.
      African identities3 years ago

      W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

      Africans rising2 years ago

      Africans Rising concludes reconstitution of governance structure – New Coordinating Collective takes office

      Paul Kagame smiling
      Politics and Society2 years ago

      Paul Kagame could be president of Rwanda until 2035 – what’s behind his staying power

      Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world
      Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

      Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world

      The art in this dossier is based on still frames from the music video ‘IMF’ by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 (Knitting Factory Records) featuring Dead Prez’s M1, directed by Jerome Bernard and produced by Duck Factory.
      Politics and Society3 years ago

      Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives

      Mary Mwaba spotlights how the evolution of social movements might be the key to this long-awaited ambition
      Africans rising2 years ago

      “Unapologetic about the youth revolution,” — in conversation with Youth4Parliament’s Mary Mwaba

      Abdulahi Bilah is a human rights activist and part of the Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MSA)
      Africans rising2 years ago

      In conversation with indefatigable Nigerian human rights defender — Abdulahi Bilah

      Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York
      Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

      Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York

      A Ugandan soldier of 341 Battalion serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) holds a rocket-propelled grenade at sunrise 30 April 2012.
      Africans rising2 years ago

      Africans Rising statement on Niger coup

      Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
      Politics and Society3 years ago

      Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation

      Policeman Shane Naidoo, left, leads Thabo Bester from holding cells in Durban.
      Arts, Culture and Sport3 years ago

      Thabo Bester’s escape from a privately-run South African prison raises questions about corruption

      Africans rising2 years ago

      Getting a grip on Borderless Africa’s foot soldiers

      Politics and Society2 years ago

      In the face of autocracy the Togolese Civil League movement pushes for justice, accountability and democracy

      Pan Africanism mural in Tanzania. Photo: Michael Branz/ CC BY 2.0
      Politics and Society2 years ago

      Opinion | PanAfricanists must seek a radical cure for the open wound that is the state in Africa

      Muhoozi Kainerugaba,
      Politics and Society2 years ago

      Opinion | The Muhoozi Project is a hoax

      David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review
      Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

      David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review