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Onai Stanely Mushava

Onai Mushava is an artist, journalist and historian of ideas, descended from the Hungwe (Fish Eagle) totem. He was awarded the National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Fiction Book in 2018 and nominated for the inaugural NAMA Outstanding Poetry Book in 2020. Senior writer for This Is Africa, Mushava was literary columnist and features writer for The Herald, Zimbabwe’s biggest daily, from 2013-2017. His essays and articles have also appeared in Brittle Paper, The Standard, NewsDay, bird and Southern Times. He divides his waking hours between Harare and Bulawayo. 
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Kenyans protest unjust taxation
Politics and Society2 days ago

“UTU” as the New–Old Political Philosophy
Politics and Society1 week ago

Raila Amolo Odinga
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All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors
Nairobi protests
Politics and Society1 month 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 Society2 months ago

Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule
Politics and Society2 months ago

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened
Politics and Society2 months ago

Leadership Beyond Politicians, Politricks and Popularity Contests: Building a Future of Abundance Through UTU Principles
Politics and Society3 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 Society4 months ago

The silence that dictatorship taught us
Politics and Society4 months ago

Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power
Politics and Society4 months ago

Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what has taken its place?
Politics and Society4 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 Society5 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 Sport5 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

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 Sport3 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
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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
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
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
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
Africans rising2 years ago

Interview | “Remove visa requirement for Africans travelling within Africa” —Africans Rising Coordinator Hardi Yakubu (Part 2)