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    Africans rising19 hours ago

    United Africa: Building the future we want
    Politics and Society1 week ago

    Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of South Africa’s economic crisis
    Arts, Culture and Sport1 week ago

    Power, pleasure and patriarchy: why The Polygamist on Netflix is captivating viewers
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    The contemporary African writer and the burden of history
    Politics and Society1 week ago

    South Africa forgetting Biko: Retaining an inferiority complex
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    IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural adjustment, “Capitalogenic” disease, and the fight to hold the World Bank accountable
    Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

    Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound
    Politics and Society2 weeks ago

    Ceasefire but not a grand bargain between the United States and Iran
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    Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same
    Politics and Society3 weeks ago

    The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa
    Politics and Society3 weeks ago

    The 1953 original sin: How a coup in Iran engineered 70 years of global resource wars
    The new rush for lithium in Africa risks fueling corruption and harming local communities and the environment
    Politics and Society3 weeks ago

    Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers
    Politics and Society3 weeks ago

    Kenya’s protests against the Ebola Quarantine Facility are as much about the economy as they are about sovereignty
    Arts, Culture and Sport3 weeks ago

    Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim crafted a magnificent new culture for South Africa
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    Abdullah Ibrahim: South Africa’s master pianist who was still touring the world at 90
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    The FIFA 2026 World Cup and its complicity in a changing global World Order
    Politics and Society3 weeks ago

    The architecture of extraction: From colonial famine to the mortgaged Kenyan pay slip
    Politics and Society4 weeks ago

    The Thursday Briefing: From “Zhing Zhong” to Technomultipolarity: Geosociotechnopolitics and the future of China–Africa ICT relations
    Politics and Society4 weeks ago

    South Africa’s anti‑migrant campaigns use the language of democracy: why that’s dangerous
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    Anti‑foreigner violence in South Africa is easily sparked: what hasn’t been done to deal with it

    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
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    In the face of autocracy the Togolese Civil League movement pushes for justice, accountability and democracy
    David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review
    Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

    David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review
    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
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    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Opinion | The Muhoozi Project is a hoax
    Andrew Chatora is an award-winning Zimbabwean author and noted exponent of the African diaspora novel.
    Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

    Vazhure’s Weeping Tomato: An Intrepid Tale of Interconnected Binary Opposites – A Review by Andrew Chatora
    Africans rising2 years ago

    Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    OPINION | Kenya protests: Either we urgently push for UN-led global tax reforms, or we face more conflict
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    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Europe has plans for Africa’s resources, and not for Africa’s benefit
    Climate activists holding a demonstration holding placards. One placard reads "Climate Justice for All"
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Climate finance for the Global North and climate reparations for the Global South
    Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

    Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1
    Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

    Andrew Chatora on the faultlines of nation-building
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Opinion — Pan-Africanist and global development expert Brian Kagoro reiterates longstanding opposition to ZIDERA
    Nelson Mandela revisiting his cell at Robben Island prison. The image was sold to support his charitable causes. Louise Gubb/Corbis via Getty Images
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Nelson Mandela’s personal items under the hammer in New York? Why it outraged some, and what’s at stake
    Flags of various African countries
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    The Africa Club launched to strengthen the continent’s financial muscle
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    UNEA-6: Fossil fuels drive both the Plastics and Climate Crises and need an International Framework to phase them out
    Herbert Mensah
    Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

    African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance
    Arts, Culture and Sport2 years ago

    Colonial statues in Africa have been removed, returned and torn down again – why it’s such a complex history
    Politics and Society2 years ago

    Africans Rising Borderless Africa Convening: The Lusaka Communiqué
    Pope Francis died on 25 April 2025. Flickr
    African identities1 year ago

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