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Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them

Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.

On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary

Zimbabwean study challenges the idea that women are inherently close to nature

Women’s relationship to the environment is shaped by their social position.

Rest assured, queerphobic leaders are the first to trample on the human rights of us all

AfrikaBurn: The whiteness of burning against an African backdrop

President Sirleaf awarded Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

The best anthem for Workers’ Day? ‘Stimela’ – a tale about apartheid’s migrant labour system

Ghana ranked Africa’s best and Eritrea worst in World Press Freedom Index

Rwanda’s Paul Kagame accuses the International Criminal Court of being “a court to try Africans, not people from across the world”

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

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

America’s tariff wars present no upside opportunities for African economies

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya

Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2

The Climate Movement must do more organizing than mobilizing

Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them

On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary

Zimbabwean study challenges the idea that women are inherently close to nature

Rest assured, queerphobic leaders are the first to trample on the human rights of us all

AfrikaBurn: The whiteness of burning against an African backdrop

President Sirleaf awarded Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

The best anthem for Workers’ Day? ‘Stimela’ – a tale about apartheid’s migrant labour system

Ghana ranked Africa’s best and Eritrea worst in World Press Freedom Index

Rwanda’s Paul Kagame accuses the International Criminal Court of being “a court to try Africans, not people from across the world”

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

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

America’s tariff wars present no upside opportunities for African economies

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya

Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2

The Climate Movement must do more organizing than mobilizing

Greetings Africa from the ancient ruins of the city of Great Zimbabwe

Greeting from Asmara, Eritrea

Corporate-led aid wreaks havoc in Tanzania

Namibian IT student develops the country’s own social networking service

Can the African child dare to re-invent the future?

The Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and memorial park in Accra, Ghana

#WCW – Akosua Adoma Owusu

Africa’s looted heritage needs to come home

Women in Africa’s top brass: it’s not just about the numbers

The Orlando cooling towers in Soweto South Africa

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

The Africa Club launched to strengthen the continent’s financial muscle

UNEA-6: Fossil fuels drive both the Plastics and Climate Crises and need an International Framework to phase them out

Climate finance for the Global North and climate reparations for the Global South

Andrew Chatora on the faultlines of nation-building

Kenyan doctors’ strike: the government keeps failing to hold up its end of the bargain

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

Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet

Nervous Conditions: on translating one of Zimbabwe’s most famous novels into Shona

Africans Rising Borderless Africa Convening: The Lusaka Communiqué

Stolen Asante artefacts from British and V&A Museums return to Ghana

#OccupyParliament Protests Against Kenya’s Finance Bill 2024: The Sovereign Power of the People

Kenya: Rejection of the Finance Bill not a denial of essential public services

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

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

Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

Kenyan Protests, Part Two: How not to clean up a fiscal mess

GenZ: These demonstrations go beyond the Finance Bill

Kenyan Protests, Part Three: Thoughts on potential pathways forward

Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them

On the Kenyan economy under William Ruto’s presidency

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary

How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector?

Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

Five things you should know about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of Africa’s greatest writers of all time

Africa Liberation Week 2025: Africans Rising to host over 850 Actions

The Climate Movement must do more organizing than mobilizing

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

America’s tariff wars present no upside opportunities for African economies

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance

Opinion — Pan-Africanist and global development expert Brian Kagoro reiterates longstanding opposition to ZIDERA

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

Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

Jack Dorsey Returns For ABC 2024

Africans Rising Calls for the Abolition of Colonial Borders and Demands Free Movement Across Africa

Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders – why free trade is a major talking point

Ghana ranked Africa’s best and Eritrea worst in World Press Freedom Index

On abortions: Empathy over judgement