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In black and white: The Nkosi family circa 1942, in a photo taken on the steps of a church in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Morley Nkosi, author of the memoir The Way Home, is seated in the middle.

AFRICAN DIASPORA

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

Morley Nkosi

Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe after its liberation but became its oppressor. Photo: Archive

AFRICAN LIBERATION

Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politics

If revolutions are to succeed, the people must deliver freedom. They must reject authoritarianism, a small revolutionary elite or a military junta.

Leroy Maisiri