What’s Happening in Mali?
On 14 January, thousands of Malians took to the streets to protest the sanctions imposed by the leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over delayed elections. Read more.
International Affairs
Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa
Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more.
Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya
Student activism in Kenya is a form of protest and resistance against oppression. At its very heart, it is also a demonstration of leadership and the capacity for mass mobilization. Read more.
Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary
Seretse Khama made an usual mark in the arena of politics in southern Africa, but his role in Botswana’s road to independence is unheralded history. Read more.
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism
Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more.
What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa
Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more.
From Well-Worn Fatigues to Well-Tailored Suits Joseph Garba’s ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’
In ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’, the late General Joseph Garba, one of Nigeria’s earliest foreign ministers, presents a case for the tacit but present ‘Big Brother’ role that Nigeria has sought to play across Africa. Read more.
Japá Young Nigerians’ Search for Prosperity and Its Effect on Political Participation in Nigeria
For many young Nigerians, relocating abroad with little or no intent to return has become a life goal. Read more.
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence
Through ‘Sozaboy’, Ken Saro-Wiwa explores how war on the African continent has come to function as a central aspect of political economy in the neoliberal world. Read more.
Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context
Most Nigerians don't have health insurance, and medical services in Nigeria are notoriously underserved. So how do the country's poorest people get healthcare? Read more.