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Politics and Society10 years ago
Burkina Faso not ruling on ex-leader’s exhumation
Burkina Faso's high court on Wednesday said it lacked jurisdiction to rule on a request for the body of former president Thomas Sankara to be exhumed...
Politics and Society12 years ago
‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara
A week before he died, Sankara said, “revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, but you cannot kill ideas”. And so, for us today, the final challenge...

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Africans Rising statement on Niger coup

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Europe has plans for Africa’s resources, and not for Africa’s benefit

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Putting the recent coups in the Sahel in broader perspective

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I refuse to die in vain

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Burkina Faso not ruling on ex-leader’s exhumation

‘Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara

Being queer in Africa: the state of LGBTIQ+ rights across the continent

US talks sanctions against Uganda after a harsh anti-gay law – but criminalizing same-sex activities has become a political tactic globally

Africans Rising concludes reconstitution of governance structure – New Coordinating Collective takes office

Getting a grip on Borderless Africa’s foot soldiers

Africans Rising statement on Niger coup

“Unapologetic about the youth revolution,” — in conversation with Youth4Parliament’s Mary Mwaba

In conversation with indefatigable Nigerian human rights defender — Abdulahi Bilah

Interview | “Within our isolated singleness, we are nothing, we are weak” — Hardi Yakubu social justice and grassroots organising

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya revisits the past under erasure in A Portrait of Emlanjeni

Europe has plans for Africa’s resources, and not for Africa’s benefit

Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York

Opinion | PanAfricanists must seek a radical cure for the open wound that is the state in Africa

Opinion | The Muhoozi Project is a hoax

In the face of autocracy the Togolese Civil League movement pushes for justice, accountability and democracy

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

Letter to President Ruto – Make Africa Climate Summit African

Nelson Mandela’s personal items under the hammer in New York? Why it outraged some, and what’s at stake

Interview | “Remove visa requirement for Africans travelling within Africa” —Africans Rising Coordinator Hardi Yakubu (Part 2)

Putting the recent coups in the Sahel in broader perspective

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

I refuse to die in vain

AAMA 2024 Champions African Solidarity, Advocates for Free Movement and Human Rights Activism

Africa Bitcoin Conference Returns For The Third Edition

What Kenyan protests tell us about economic management and the politics of reforms in African states

2024 All-African Movement Assembly Accra-Ghana

Kenya’s government has a blueprint for digital tyranny. It is working – for now

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

Kenyan Protests, Part Three: Thoughts on potential pathways forward

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

Kenyan Protests, Part One: The political education of President William Ruto

HIV breakthrough: drug trial shows injection twice a year is 100% effective against infection

Kenyan police use excessive force because they’re serving political elites, not the public – policy analyst

#Africans4Kenya: 400 African and Diaspora CSOs hold Ruto responsible for killings and abductions of protesters

Debunking the mythical powers of Pangolins

#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

Reject the Finance Bill: Young Kenya Rises in a Summer of Revolt

GenZ: These demonstrations go beyond the Finance Bill

Africans Rising Borderless Africa Convening: The Lusaka Communiqué

Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet

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