Pambazuka News takes stock of the victories since WCAR in Durban, the political organising that informed the landmark conference, reparations and the tasks for the next 25 years.

Imperialist competition and wars that facilitate extractivism have long shaped the use of seaports for access to resources, markets, and devalued labor. In the last decade, countries in the chain of imperialist exploitation have increased attempts to restore the external domination of African ports and lands while producing conditions that ensure wars, instability, corruption, and perpetuate a cycle of theft and underdevelopment. The war on Iran is set to sharpen these conditions as countries like the UAE and Turkey attempt to maintain their positions in a crumbling system. 

Women’s rights and empowerment has pervaded popular discourse over the last few decades, but have women’s conditions and the ideologies that reproduce them changed? Issue 930 of Pambazuka News seeks to move beyond patriarchy to rethink gender and female-male liberation across Global Africa.

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Across Global Africa, people's lives are shaped by border regimes, whose contradictions are played out in arenas such as football and reflected in tensions between contribution and precarity. Issue 925 of Pambazuka News explores different and too often violent realities of movement and migration of Global Africans.

The 2026 World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19, 2026. The articles in this issue examine power, imperialism, inequality, sexuality and resistance through the lens of the World Cup moment. 

The struggle is one, the fronts are many. Across two volumes, this special issue brings together critical perspectives on the enduring challenges and emerging possibilities of liberation and reparative justice.

The US Supreme Court has ruled to restrict the creation of a second majority-Black district, portending vote dilution and retrogression under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Further setbacks or future gains will heavily depend on political struggle.

US-Iran negotiations over the last weekend reached no deal; ceasefire raises little hope amid double blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. 

Pambazuka celebrates the passing of the United Nations General Assembly ResolutionA/80/L.48 on the Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity. Acknowledgement of the most heinous crime committed against Global Africans has been long overdue. 

Global Africa must oppose military aggression.Global Africans must stand with the Iranians and prepare to navigate the ripple effects of this war on African peoples.

Special Issue on Cuba View PDF

Cuba has offered unconditional support to the wellbeing of African peoples. The people of Cuba now more than ever urgently need the support of Global Africa. 

Cuba has offered unconditional support to the wellbeing of African peoples. The people of Cuba now urgently need the support of global Africa. 

Reflections from the Second Pambazuka Town Hall highlights the implications of imperial intervention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for Global African peoples

An analysis of the intellectual, historical, political and Pan African implications of the 2025-2026 African Cup of Nations.

Pambazuka News outlines its position on how Africans and working peoples worldwide can mobilize in the midst of imperial decay.

A recap of Pambazuka’s engagements in 2025, pressing issues of the year, and Season’s Wishes to our Audience and Contributors.

An assessment of the failed coup in Benin and the implications for democratic struggles within West Africa.

Insights from the Pambazuka Town Hall held on 23 November 2025.