Kwame Nkrumah
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Africa has a gift the world still needs
The demographic case is equally striking. More than 60% of Africans are under 25. By 2050, one in three people aged 15 to 24 anywhere on Earth will be African. A continent this…
Africa must rise, for good
Our simple argument is that the Second Scramble for Africa shouldn’t happen on our watch when we have so much at our disposal to avert this age-old plunder. It is a shameful…
Innovation, preparedness and African agency in a multipolar world
African public intellectuals have repeatedly concerned themselves about how African societies can act with purpose and autonomy in a global system that has historically limited…
Africa’s voice and power must be underpinned by dignity
For many African public intellectuals such as Steve Biko, Leopold Senghor, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, political independence represented more than the…
US role in Africa delivers fake democracies
The lesson is clear: democracy in Washington’s playbook is not a universal value but a lever, invoked when nations resist economic control, claim authority over their own…
Why Kwame Nkrumah still matters
Decades on, Kwame Nkrumah’s speeches read like a roadmap for Africa’s present challenges, from trade and unity to economic independence
Angst about Trump’s Greenland threat
When coercion is directed outward from the West toward the Global South it is normalised, bureaucratised and framed as responsible governance
Could Ali Mazrui’s nuclear pragmatism inspire practical policies?
The Kenyan American political scientist argued that the Global South acquiring nuclear weapons would lead to universal nuclear disarmament
How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire
Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…
One Book, Two Takes: It’s a Continent
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata’s impressive African history book by non-historians
Why Ghana allows US military base on its soil
The current government is adhering to an old policy of appeasement of Western interests
OPINION | What value does Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa bring to Davos?
Contemporary African intellectuals, historians, self-styled Pan-Africanists, patriots and good old liberal political commentators such as myself carry divergent opinions of why…
We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu
Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies
The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris
The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris
Evaluating the African Charter, 40 years on
Africa is nowhere near achieving the promises of the African Charter, which only underscores its importance