Daley situates the young academic’s tragic death in the recent history of anti-Blackness and marketisation in UK higher education, amidst performative diversity and enduring white supremacy.

The U.S. Army's July 15, 2026 activation of “Drongo Company,” a new Psychological Operations company within the 7th Psychological Operations Battalion, marks an important development in Washington's expanding information and psychological operations capabilities in Africa. The Army describes the unit as part of its effort to conduct psychological operations across “contested environments,” while reporting identifies its mission as supporting U.S. Africa Command.

This essay examines Türkiye’s two-stage intervention in Somalia since 2012. First came humanitarian involvement during the Somali famine in the early 2010s. Once the immediate crisis waned, Turkish economic and strategic interests came to dominate its relationship with Somalia. It is as if Islamic humanitarianism was the trojan horse for Türkiye’s long-term interests in and exploitation of Somalia.

Allowing us to examine how migrants remain excluded even under the guise of inclusion, Uçkan examines the lives of Syrian refugees in Turkey, which demonstrate the structural conditions that render them invisible, stateless, and as a cheap “army of labour” without a pathway for integration and progression in their material conditions.

Bilateral relations between South Africa (SA) and the United States (US) increasingly depict how US coercive power has been less concerned with the veneer of diplomacy since the current Trump administration. In addition to SA’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against genocide in Palestine, the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act and the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act stand contrary to the policies the US administration seeks to see in SA. The article concludes on the constraints SA faces considering asymmetric global relations, and calls for building local capacity to protect autonomous decisions. 

The United States had helped force out Somalia’s most Turkey-aligned minister. He recently came back as Speaker of parliament. The day after his confirmation, he called Ankara - not Washington or the African Union.

The Global Pan-African Movement, North American Chapter, regards the erection of the statue of Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu at Entebbe Airport as deeply inappropriate and inconsistent with Africa's historic commitment to the principles of national sovereignty, opposition to foreign military intervention, and solidarity with peoples struggling against occupation and domination.

Often treated only as a political movement, Nathan argues that one of Pan Africanism’s strongholds has always been the church. Black churches and clergy not only created international networks and political organizations, but insisted that the Gospel could never be reconciled with racial oppression.

Using the Kenyan Rastafari lawsuit as a case, this article argues that colonial legacies marginalise African indigenous religions, advocating for their legal recognition, protection, and a commitment to upholding broader religious freedom.

NATO’s summit ended with custom-engraved .357 Magnum — a Turkish-made Gümüşay and live ammunition souvenir to its leaders amid an increased synergy between the summit and the military industrial complex in the West. Elkorghli examines the synergy and highlights the contradictions in the alliance’s principle of “attack on one, attack on all,” the manufacturing of fear in service of militarism and finance, and doubts about the invincibility of western defence projected during the Summit in the light of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and Israel/US aggression on Iran.

Farooque argues that Africa has many challenges but parts of its leadership and people are awakening to unity for its transformation. It is the people of Africa who can get rid of the exploitation of life and nature, neo-colonialism, civil and inter-state war, imperialist interference and aggression unleashed by external forces and internal collaborators. Political education among the masses of people and political organizing with mature leadership anchoring in Nkrumah’s calls and teachings are urgent initiatives on the continent.

Moro argues the UK's 2026 abstention on a UN resolution condemning the transatlantic slave trade, and its support for the war in Ukraine, reflects a system that continues to prioritize elite wealth over public accountability. Reflecting on Britain's 1833 slavery-abolition loan — which compensated slave owners rather than enslaved people, and wasn't paid off until 2015 — as a historical case, the critique extends to modern examples like David Cameron's Jamaica prison-funding deal.

Agostinho discusses Jamaican Creole histories in the context of (post)-colonialism, examining the impacts of the indigenous people, trans-Atlantic slavery, emancipation and independence in shaping the evolution of Jamaican (Patwa).

Madzivhandila argues that xenophobia can only be addressed through a radical political economy, not solely moral appeals to Ubuntu, and that the Left needs new political strategies to succeed.

A critical reflection contrasting Russia’s attempts to recruit Kenyans for war in Ukraine with the United Kingdom’s British Army Training Unit in Kenya and related accusations of recruiting foreign mercenaries to carry out subversive activities in Africa. Mandarini warns that Africa is a vast, interesting, and autonomous world that should not be turned into a battlefield for world powers. 

Oloo examines how Russia's fraudulent recruitment of Kenyan youth into its Ukraine war exposes neo-colonialism's newest means to weaponize poverty as Black ammunition.

An incisive analysis that reveals how anti-immigration policies and the inhumane treatment of migrants are rooted in enduring colonial and imperial forms of violence that uproot people from their homes and deny them dignity, belonging, and recognition in societies that portray themselves as havens of freedom and opportunity.

Contrasting observations of the ongoing world cup with the Book of Shame, the article tells two different stories made possible through a similar process of coerced movement. The contradiction of European states that benefit from Global African migration yet seek to criminalize those very bodies en masse is even more disturbing when we consider how despite facing exploitation, the experiences of athletes represent a minority of those that migrate. 

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. 

Pambazuka’s interview with Navid Farnia reveals that the repression, exclusion, and humiliation of athletes, support staff, and fans from other countries, including FIFA and team officials from Somalia, Iran and Iraq, is deeply connected to racialized logic, the repression and violence against migrant workers and immigrants in general.