Sajeev Nair
The passing away of Dr Kenneth David Kaunda on 17 June 2021, the first President of Zambia at the age of 97, who led the country under one party rule from 1964 to 1991 marked the end of...
Even as the world observed the Nelson Mandela Day on Sunday, South Africa had not yet recovered from the unrest and large-scale violence which engulfed the country in the past few days. The arson and looting broke out amid...
In November 2020, the Moroccan government sent its military to the Guerguerat area, a buffer zone between the territory claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). The Guerguerat border post is at the...
Photo: People are seen at a makeshift market in Bunagana, a border town in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Oct. 1, 2022. (Xinhua/Alain Uaykani)
In early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
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In early June 2021, the United States military led a major military exercise on the African continent: the African Lion 21. Major General Andrew Rohling of the US Army’s Southern European Task Force said it was the ‘largest US...
BY Steven W. Thomas
Last year, I wrote an article—“Ethiopian Women Making Movies”—about the central role of women in a remarkably diverse Ethiopian cinema. At the time, I was concerned primarily with those who lived and worked in Ethiopia’s capital...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disruptive and expansive nationalist ideology is the main underpinning of his nation’s foreign policy orientation.
This has been apparent in his aggressive approach to Ukraine since 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, as well as in...
By Funmi Adebayo
To say I’m disappointed in Britain would be an understatement. I think for many British Africans, we have gotten to a point where we are either questioning our place in British identity or ready to completely...
Photograph Source: Kristen Opalinski – CC BY-SA 3.0
BY DAVID ROVICS
This may sound either arrogant or forgetful, but I could not possibly remember the number of times I was in the same room or at the same protest as Desmond Tutu. And...
By Mahdi Blaine
Photo Credit: Dubdem on Flickr CC BY 2.0.
As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was...
