Prince William and Kate’s recent tour was supposed to reposition the monarchy in the Caribbean. Instead, it has opened old and painful wounds about Britain’s role during transatlantic slave trade, raising new questions about reparations and the monarchy’s future.
Politics and Society
Politics and Society Timbuktu manuscripts placed online are only a sliver of West Africa’s ancient archive
Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
Politics and Society Uhuru’s last days are beckoning — He better get used to it
President Uhuru Kenyatta is on his way out, with just four months to the most hotly contested succession presidential elections in recent times. As Kenyatta prepares to leave office, his power has drastically waned and the Mt Kenya political leaders now neither fear nor respect him.
Politics and Society Botswana launches vaccine manufacturing plant
Botswana has launched the construction of a vaccine manufacturing plant. NantBotswana vaccine manufacturing plant will be focused on addressing the COVID-19 challenges and other ailments such as cancer.
Politics and Society Left to die: the fate of thousands of people living with HIV in Tigray
Unless special attention is given to conflict and HIV the war will undermine the achievement of the 2030 goals to end AIDS, discrimination, and new infections.
Politics and Society Will SADC stand up to Mswati?
The top-down traditional meeting between Eswatini’s king and his subjects cannot be the format for serious political dialogue.
Politics and Society Damned if you vote — damned if you don’t: Zimbabwean youth and political alienation
The 2023 election is considered by many Zimbabweans to be decisive. The economy is struggling and there is belief amongst many that only a change of government can stop the downturn. Key to this aspiration of change is the youth vote. However, the campaign to register young people to vote continues to move at a snail’s pace.
Politics and Society William Ruto, the presidential candidate taking on Kenya’s political dynasties
Opinion polls, not all credible, have placed Ruto in pole position for the August elections – but the political ground could shift before then.
Politics and Society Human Rights is a sham: A dispatch from the Neocolonial state
A reminder to Africans on the imperative need to move beyond the liberalist mere discourse of rights, towards an objective and concrete overhaul of their material condition. Alieu Bah here used his country, The Gambia as a pretext as to the failure of that liberal Democratic model and contemplating the complicity of the new kind of African activist in this scheme of neocolonialism.