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The sudden death of Chad’s president, who had ruled for 30 years, has left palpable tension and a lack of security in the air
The Super Falcons are the undisputed queens of African football, winning 11 of the 13 women’s continental championships ever played. But they still have to beg the Nigerian federation for pay and respect
Public infrastructure was allegedly damaged by the activist group in 2019 and by the Economic Freedom Fighters in 2020
Leaders of the Intlungu YaseMatyotyombeni Movement say they are protesting for the delivery of basic services and better housing
The Continent observed the demonstrations outside Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University
The vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State has spoken about academic measures for students for the academic year following the national shutdown
Funds will be diverted from the higher education department to help cover the NSFAS shortfall
What his supporters and assorted right-wingers will do now in a climate that is less friendly to them is anyone’s guess
More than 263-million cultivators and labourers have joined the rights movement against the Modi government’s laws that will push people further into poverty
Residents in south Durban want the petroleum giant to pay reparations, rehabilitate the area and protect the people who live near the plant
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Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being silenced
Photos of citizens draped in the bloodied flag have spread around the world in the month the country should be celebrating 60 years of independence
‘Nigeria kills its people. Nigeria has always killed its people.’
“They say people disappear, young men with dreadlocked hair, with tattoos, or even just carrying a laptop in a backpack,” writes Elnathan John in a reflective essay about Nigeria.
We need the eyes and ears of the international community to be alert to assaults on democracy as we run up to the election on 18 October
Citizens have for a year protested against the president seeking a third term in office despite a two-term limit. Many have been killed — and 90 more people died in this week’s crackdown
Uganda’s president is likely to win the next election. But Bobi Wine’s constituency poses the most serious threat yet to his continued rule
Ahead of planned protests, Cameroon’s main opposition leader argues that change is more urgent than ever
The protests that have taken place in the United States confront the racialised edifice that built the modern world
Large corporates whose business has thrived because of inequalities, could be hijacking the anti-racist movement by offering money and not tangible changes
The coronavirus has hit the Eastern Cape hard, but many rural areas in the province still have no clean water for hand washing, forcing residents to break lockdown regulations to protest
White supremacy must be held to account if systemic anti-blackness is to be rooted out of society
Tired of being arrested and beaten up at protests, young activists tried something different and it worked
We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start
Dynamic grassroots movements are especially needed in authoritarian states where institutions are fundamentally broken
A global police state – the military arm for capital interests – marginalises, controls and subjugates millions of people considered surplus humanity
The police brutality protests through the eyes of an African in Brooklyn, New York
The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination
The protests sweeping the United States after the latest police killing of a black man again speak to the ability of images to evoke powerful emotional responses
A statue of the French king in Louisville, Kentucky was damaged during the protests against police killings. It should not be repaired