Arts & Books

In 1997, the then secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe…The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tol

Increasingly, leadership has emerged as a key factor in Africa’s progress. Bewildered leadership schemes have seen a good part of post-independence Africa sinking, some leading to horrible civil wars and state paralysis.

Marcella Camara-Macauley was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, west Africa. At the tender age of 18 months, she was afflicted with the polio virus, and for almost three years she could not walk. She began to walk late, taking baby steps the first time around, impaired by debilitating polio.

With the 30 September 2009 deadline breached for Kenya’s squabbling politicians to set up a local tribunal to try ‘those who bear the greatest responsibility for the violence which claimed more than 1,500 lives’ following the December 2007 elections, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A

'The End of White World Supremacy' explores a complex issue – the integration of blacks into white America – from multiple perspectives: within the United States; globally and in the context of movements for social justice.

The high incidence of rape and domestic violence in Africa suggests that African men need to have a conversation about masculinities – on what it means to be a man in contemporary Africa and how they define their relationship with women.

European renaissance marked the beginning of the dis-membering of Africa, her body and soul were torn apart as her resources were raped and her beauty disfigured. Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 – ‘good hope’ for the invaders and ‘bad omen’ for the invaded.

Professor Issa Shivji's book, Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism?

When Zinedine Zidane moved from Juventus to Real Madrid for a transfer fee of well over US$50 million shortly after the 1998 FIFA World Cup (which he won with France), the world thought they had seen the limit of football 'business'. That record has been broken at least three times since 1998.