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Interview with Lead Organizer of AAMA 2026, Prince Akpah, Pan-African Solidarity and Mobilisation Lead at Africans Rising

Aneth Mbame — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:23:00 +0000

As the All-African Movements Assembly (AAMA) 2026 convenes hundreds of grassroots activists in Maputo, lead organizer Prince Akpah confronts the persistent systemic barriers of international travel and visa restrictions. By rejecting rigid corporate formats for decentralized, trauma-informed solidarity, this assembly redefines pan-African resistance from the frontline up.

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United Africa: Building the future we want

Op-ed — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:23:49 +0000

Decades after the 1884 Berlin partition, artificial borders and greed continue to fracture Africa, undermining the African Union's pan-African vision. Yet a powerful counter-movement is rising. By championing a common currency, open borders, and unified global leverage, citizens are demanding structural integration to reclaim the continent’s vast natural wealth, transforming historic divisions into shared prosperity, dignity, and lasting continental security.

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Africa Bitcoin Day 2026: Eight cities, ten days, one continental refusal

Eddie Jeff — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:32 +0000

Moving across eight cities in seven countries, Africa Bitcoin Day 2026 marks the decentralization of continental monetary resistance. No longer a Western investment story, Bitcoin has become a political tool for financial sovereignty—a mass refusal of colonial extraction, exorbitant remittance fees, and state financial surveillance.

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The Empire’s war, our Mathree fares: Why the cost of living just exploded

Mzalendo Mutemi wa Kiama — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:24:00 +0000

For ordinary Kenyans, survival is now a mathematical impossibility. Our mishahara (wages) remain frozen despite token Labour Day increments, the cost of living skyrockets. Rather than offering solutions, the political elite and state pundits weaponize complex economic jargon and global crises to mask systemic domestic failures as unavoidable and tragic acts of nature.

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Dada means sister

Eddie Jeff — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:24 +0000

How a Kenyan events planner built Africa's most important Bitcoin school for women, and why the architecture of the classroom matters as much as the lesson.

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