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Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1
Herbert Mensah
Arts, Culture and Sport1 year ago

African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance
Pope Francis died on 25 April 2025. Flickr
African identities1 year ago

Reform or retreat? The Catholic church in Africa after Pope Francis
African woman
Politics and Society10 months ago

All politics is local – Lessons from our ancestors
Politics and Society1 year ago

Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery
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 rising12 months 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 Society10 months 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 Society10 months ago

Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule
Politics and Society9 months ago

Raila Amolo Odinga
Politics and Society10 months ago

A year later, Africa’s Gen Z uprising is only more emboldened
Politics and Society10 months ago

Leadership Beyond Politicians, Politricks and Popularity Contests: Building a Future of Abundance Through UTU Principles
Politics and Society11 months 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 Sport8 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
AfroChampions
Politics and Society1 year ago

In search of African inspiration? Aliko Dangote more than inspires

Arts, Culture and Sport1 day ago

Thomas Mapfumo hurts. For many reasons #Zimbabwe
Bitcoin in Africa2 days ago

The African Bitcoin ecosystem has a credibility crisis
Politics and Society5 days ago

To be Black is to be foreign and Othered: Weaponising colonial borders to fracture PanAfrican unity
Arts, Culture and Sport5 days ago

Racial stereotypes of African footballers persist. A World Cup is a good time to talk about them
Politics and Society5 days ago

Zimbabwe’s new phase of crass political elitism until 2030 and beyond
Africans rising1 week ago

United Africa: Building the future we want
Politics and Society2 weeks ago

Blaming migrants ignores the real causes of South Africa’s economic crisis
Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

Power, pleasure and patriarchy: why The Polygamist on Netflix is captivating viewers
Arts, Culture and Sport2 weeks ago

The contemporary African writer and the burden of history
Politics and Society2 weeks ago

South Africa forgetting Biko: Retaining an inferiority complex
Politics and Society2 weeks ago

IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural adjustment, “Capitalogenic” disease, and the fight to hold the World Bank accountable
Arts, Culture and Sport3 weeks ago

Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Ceasefire but not a grand bargain between the United States and Iran
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

The 1953 original sin: How a coup in Iran engineered 70 years of global resource wars
The new rush for lithium in Africa risks fueling corruption and harming local communities and the environment
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

Kenya’s protests against the Ebola Quarantine Facility are as much about the economy as they are about sovereignty
Arts, Culture and Sport4 weeks ago

Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim crafted a magnificent new culture for South Africa
Arts, Culture and Sport4 weeks ago

Abdullah Ibrahim: South Africa’s master pianist who was still touring the world at 90