
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




Thoughts on state-building, democracy, and geopolitics.














A forensic archaeologist and former Zimbabwe police officer uses his investigative skills to find the missing and the dead in his homeland.

Detention centres and corrupt coast guards prey on migrants, but the EU continues to support Libyan border authorities.

Most efforts in Africa to date have been financially supported and driven from outside the continent.

Why doesn’t SADC intervene in dire political situations in the same way leaders in West Africa do?

The Horn of Africa is the epicentre of foreign military activity. Foreign troops have been deployed to support peace initiatives, subdue terror groups and support foreign...

Many political issues in the 2020 US election are domestic. But black resistance to white supremacy has long had global repercussions.

Tensions in both countries relating to Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state are hampering progress.

With the threat of coronavirus still lurking, Moroccan football has continued to engage health authorities in the North African country in an effort to see the...

Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.

The alleged extraordinary rendition of Paul Rusesabagina reveals Kagame’s ‘Mossad Complex’ at its full.