Ernesto frames the solidarity marches for Burkina Faso’s leadership as Pan African zeitgeist and challenges the deliberate, desperate, and simplistic attempts at reducing the grassroots support for Traore to a “democracy vs. military junta” debate.

Celebrating a Pan African literary figure and his intellectual and socio-cultural impact on global Africa

An incisive commentary on US militaristic postures, class struggles, and the inevitable consequences for the liberal order

Ibrahim explores the cause of the crisis in Libya; painting a picture of the basis for the “anti-blackness” that has taken root in the country and connecting it to the broader devastation left in the wake of NATO 

An assessment of historical contexts, current economic indicators, emerging geopolitical
trends, and viable strategies for Africa’s navigating shifting global power dynamics.

Pan-Africanism or barbarism! Given the colossal human suffering in Palestine and Congo, the people of Global Africa must take position on the liberation movements in the Sahel and anti-people reactionary regimes that serve imperialism and Zionism. 

During the early morning hours of 6 September, a news item shook the international community saying that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, known affectionately as “Gushungo”, had passed away at the age of 95.

Despite some shortcomings in his policies, Mugabe could not be pushed to betray the people of Zimbabwe and Africa in general.  

The author argues that the Rwanda-Burundi’s dark colonisation past helps us understand the deep-rooted causes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 

The author argues that Africanisation or decolonisation has little to do with institutions of higher education, but more about the death-prone position that the Black body continues to occupy in a world violently constructed by whiteness.

Five decades ago thousands gathered in Algiers to recommit to revolutionary transformation around the world.

In this essay, the author objects to the portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr. by biographer David Garrow arguing that such a picture would not change King’s noble legacy that the world can be changed through kindness and charity.

On 4 July, the 12th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) was held in Niamey, Niger to officially proclaim a project that is inherent within the notions of sovereignty and unity on the continent.

This is a tribute of Eusi Kwayana to Andaiye, which captures her connection to the Rodney legacy, and the political and humanist traditions she shared with many others in Guyana and across the world, and her patent originality and uniqueness in the global struggle.

The article is a review of a recent book on the PAIGC education programme in the anticolonial movement for national liberation. The piece raises questions about what a militant approach to history might be.

The author reports on the Walter Rodney conference, which took place in March 2019 at the London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and whose theme was “On Walter Rodney: Pan-Afrikanism, Marxism and the Next Generation”.

Today [27 February], we pause to remember one of the great warriors of our race, uBaw’uHlathi, uMangaliso Sobukwe. 41 years ago, on this day, he died mysteriously at the Kimberley hospital (now Robert Sobukwe hospital), in the Land of Kgosi Galeshewe.

Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century, the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonisers sought to conquer the people for the purpose of labour exploitation, strategic territorial advantage and the plunder of natural resources.

The leaders of the 18th century separatist movement from England were not motivated by a genuine desire for freedom and equality.

Six months from now, a commemoration of the long saga of struggle against national oppression and economic exploitation will take place.