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Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

"Africa is a region with immense potential for Bitcoin to make a real impact on people's lives" Jack Dorsey.

Politics and Society4 days 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 Sport2 weeks 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 Society2 weeks ago

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

Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

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

Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

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

Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

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

Politics and Society3 weeks ago

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

Politics and Society1 month ago

The Climate Movement must do more organizing than mobilizing

Pope Francis died on 25 April 2025. Flickr
African identities1 month ago

Reform or retreat? The Catholic church in Africa after Pope Francis

Donald Trump.
Politics and Society1 month ago

America’s tariff wars present no upside opportunities for African economies

Politics and Society1 month ago

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya

AfroChampions
Politics and Society2 months ago

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

Herbert Mensah
Arts, Culture and Sport3 months ago

African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance

Politics and Society5 months ago

Opinion — Pan-Africanist and global development expert Brian Kagoro reiterates longstanding opposition to ZIDERA

Andrew Chatora is an award-winning Zimbabwean author and noted exponent of the African diaspora novel.
Arts, Culture and Sport6 months ago

Vazhure’s Weeping Tomato: An Intrepid Tale of Interconnected Binary Opposites – A Review by Andrew Chatora

Africans rising7 months ago

Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

Politics and Society7 months ago

Jack Dorsey Returns For ABC 2024

Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
Politics and Society7 months ago

Africans Rising Calls for the Abolition of Colonial Borders and Demands Free Movement Across Africa

Politics and Society7 months ago

Israel’s Ideology of Genocide Must Be Confronted and Stopped

Arts, Culture and Sport7 months ago

Zimbabwe’s public historian Pathisa Nyathi has died – he restored the erased history of the Ndebele people

A person reading the bible
African identities2 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

Scholar-activist W.E.B. DuBois in 1946.
African identities2 years ago

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

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 identities2 years ago

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

Politics and Society3 years ago

Saudi Arabia is a modern slave hub and graveyard for African migrant workers

Africans rising2 years ago

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

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

Arts, Culture and Sport3 years ago

“Les Sapeurs”, Black Dandyism and the genesis of gender fluid African fashion

Paul Kagame smiling
Politics and Society2 years ago

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

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 Society2 years ago

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

Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York
Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

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

Cartoon | UK High Court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda
Politics and Society2 years ago

Cartoon | UK High Court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda

Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
Politics and Society2 years ago

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

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

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders - why free trade is a major talking point
Politics and Society3 years ago

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders – why free trade is a major talking point

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

Policeman Shane Naidoo, left, leads Thabo Bester from holding cells in Durban.
Arts, Culture and Sport2 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