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Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1
Politics and Society1 year ago

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery
African woman
Politics and Society1 year ago

All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o at the 2016 Ake Festival . Photo Credit: Hamed Adedeji
Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – Decolonial icon, writer and Mwalimu: A voice silenced, but never forgotten – An obituary
Africans rising1 year ago

The Mask is Off. Why Kenyan #GenZs are Rising Against a Regime Stuck in its Colonial Past
Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

Remembering an African icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o — 10 quotes Part 2
Nairobi protests
Politics and Society1 year 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 Society1 year ago

Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule
Politics and Society12 months ago

Raila Amolo Odinga
Politics and Society1 year ago

Leadership Beyond Politicians, Politricks and Popularity Contests: Building a Future of Abundance Through UTU Principles
Politics and Society1 year ago

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened
Politics and Society1 year ago

Understanding Constructivist Pan-Africanism
Politics and Society1 year ago

Samora Machel’s vision for Mozambique didn’t survive: what has taken its place?
Arts, Culture and Sport11 months ago

A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
Politics and Society1 year ago

Reelecting William Samoei Ruto
Politics and Society1 year ago

Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power
Politics and Society1 year ago

The silence that dictatorship taught us
African identities9 months ago

Op-Ed – Borderless Africa: The Reparations Africa Owes Herself
NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2025 Best of Caine Award. David Levenson/Getty Images
Arts, Culture and Sport11 months ago

NoViolet Bulawayo wins the best of 25 years of the Caine Prize. Why she deserves it
Arts, Culture and Sport12 months ago

Beyond the Hits: How to Build Africa’s Sound as a Business

Infrastructure before enforcement: Why Kenya's speed camera ambush breaks the social contract
Politics and Society1 day ago

Infrastructure before enforcement: Why Kenya’s speed camera ambush breaks the social contract
Arts, Culture and Sport2 days ago

Literature, authorship and the human voice: Andrew Chatora’s Unstoppable March of the Human Condition
Politics and Society2 days ago

Artificial Intelligence: Private ownership, collective risks
Politics and Society2 days ago

Trump’s AI ambitions demand a clearer response from Africa
Politics and Society5 days ago

Maputo to Host 2026 All-African Movement Assembly for Activists & Human Rights Defenders
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

The passport, the database and the State: Who controls digital Zimbabwe?
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Wicknell Chivhayo and trying to own Zimbabwe’s conscious culture is ephemeral and futile
Arts, Culture and Sport3 weeks ago

Olu Jacobs remembered: Nollywood’s elder statesman always acted for his country
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Remembering the argument for progressive national gender equality consciousness
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

When the Algorithm decides what we see: Who governs Africa’s digital democracy?
Politics and Society1 month ago

Zambia 2026: Beyond the ballot did SADC duck the election crisis? (SAPES Dialogue forum presentation)
Politics and Society1 month ago

Democracy in code: How digital power is reshaping sovereignty in Africa
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Fifa in Africa: has Gianni Infantino really helped football development?
Politics and Society2 months ago

Zambia at a crossroads: Preserving democracy beyond the ballot
Politics and Society2 months ago

Education is neither a commercial venture nor a credit facility but a basic need and a public good
Politics and Society2 months ago

The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies
Politics and Society2 months ago

The great ledger correction: Why cancelling the debt of the Global South is restitution, not forgiveness
Politics and Society2 months ago

Zambia’s opposition did not lose this election on the campaign trail. It lost it at the nomination desk
Politics and Society2 months ago

A mirror across the Zambezi: Why Zambia’s August 13 vote matters to Zimbabwe and SADC
Politics and Society2 months ago

Explaining the theory of political ‘Morari’ in Zimbabwe