The Labour Party logo and Peter Obi

Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria

10 months ago
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All Progressives Congress and the People's...
Good road networks key in trade facilitation

Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations

11 months ago
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in January 2015. Launched in March...
Picture of journalists and victims of forced evictions in Mosafejo-Oworonshoki

How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...

11 months ago
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women, and children. Places of worship,...
African leaders pose for a photo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation

1 year ago
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the...
Protestors at a mine at the settlement of Uis in Namibia's Erongo region

Namibia Lithium Battle

1 year ago
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, did not...
Operation Dudula supporters marched in the Johannesburg Central Business District.

Operation Dudula

1 year ago
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a ‘clean-up campaign’ to directly confront...
Lunch hour in Windhoek's Central Business District (CBD) with residents walking through Post Street Mall, Windhoek's main business center..

The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor

1 year ago
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a home, a car, and send...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) celebrate 10 years at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg.

Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime

1 year ago
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters at the party’s ten-year anniversary...
Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia and President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development.

Organization Of African First Ladies For Development

1 year ago
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in Namibia’s capital, Windhoek. The campaign is...
Dumisani Baleni EFF South Africa Communications officer for Gauteng Province, South Africa.

EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools

1 year ago
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of debate on black aesthetics in...
African leaders discussed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) at the 36th African Union (AU) Summit held on 18th February 2023 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement

1 year ago
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU, later renamed African Union in...
Photo Of newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, and immediate past President, Muhammad Buhari.

Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity

1 year ago
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this remark on the 28th of...
Zimbabwe’s President posing for a photo with his guests.

IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...

1 year ago
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the 16th century, a mechanism that...
A picture of the leading presidential candidates at the just concluded Nigerian 2023 polls

2023 Elections: A Street Robbery

1 year ago
If you can relate with the kind of mood you'd meet when on a visit to a street that had just experienced a robbery of a very violent dimension,...
Women from a Maloraneng village in Lesotho

How Greed Is Destroying Afrikan Environments And Ecosystems

2 years ago
A Lesotho environmental law expert says it is alarmingly troubling that the once pristine African land continues to be sacrificed at the altar of profits by multinational companies extracting...
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba , the eldest son of Uganda’s long serving autocratic leader, is set to contest in the 2026 presidential election

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s Son Eyes 2026 Election Challenge

2 years ago
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the eldest son of Uganda’s long-serving autocratic leader, is set to contest in the 2026 presidential election in a gambit that could potentially see the military officer...
ASUU Strike Student Demonstrations in Nigeria

Students’ Loan: We Can’t Pay, We Won’t Pay

2 years ago
On November 22nd, 2022, Nigeria's 9th National Assembly successfully passed a Students' Loan Bill, a move that has now incited reactions along varying interests and ideological lines. The bill,...
Elephants in Bugungu wildlife reserve, Buliisa district

Oil Money Heralds Trouble For Uganda’s Indigenous Bagungu Tribe, Environment

2 years ago
BULIISA, Uganda — Baboons wander through shrub-lands that line the sides of newly built roads straddling Uganda’s wildlife reserves close to the shores of oil-rich Lake Albert. Across the...
Miners at an open cast Granite mine in Mutoko

Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver

2 years ago
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Patrice Èmery Lumumba painting

Lumumba’s Tooth: A Symbolic Caricature Of Afrika’s Continued Political Toothlessness

2 years ago
The western media’s campaign in 1960 to discredit the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo (modern-day DRC), Patrice Èmery Lumumba, make a sad ending as...

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A police officer in camouflage detains a male protester wearing a red beret as a cameraman records the event during a youth-led demonstration against a proposed finance bill.

The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity

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Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In...
Heads of State for Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré (left) and Colonel Assimi Goïta of Mali (right).

Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue

10 months ago
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been...
The Labour Party logo and Peter Obi

Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria

10 months ago
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All...
Good road networks key in trade facilitation

Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations

11 months ago
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in...
Picture of journalists and victims of forced evictions in Mosafejo-Oworonshoki

How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...

11 months ago
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
African leaders pose for a photo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation

1 year ago
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Protestors at a mine at the settlement of Uis in Namibia's Erongo region

Namibia Lithium Battle

1 year ago
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula supporters marched in the Johannesburg Central Business District.

Operation Dudula

1 year ago
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
Lunch hour in Windhoek's Central Business District (CBD) with residents walking through Post Street Mall, Windhoek's main business center..

The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor

1 year ago
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) celebrate 10 years at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg.

Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime

1 year ago
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia and President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development.

Organization Of African First Ladies For Development

1 year ago
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
Dumisani Baleni EFF South Africa Communications officer for Gauteng Province, South Africa.

EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools

1 year ago
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
African leaders discussed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) at the 36th African Union (AU) Summit held on 18th February 2023 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement

1 year ago
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
Photo Of newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, and immediate past President, Muhammad Buhari.

Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity

1 year ago
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
Zimbabwe’s President posing for a photo with his guests.

IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...

1 year ago
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...