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    African woman
    Politics and Society1 week ago

    All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors
    Nairobi protests
    Politics and Society3 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 Society4 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 Society2 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 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
    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