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latest news & developmentsOpen letter to Thabo Mbeki on the crisis in the DRC
With respect, your recent statements regarding the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carry the tone of pre-hostile rhetoric laced with accusatory language, ethnic…
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.
Bold innovations for this year’s Trace Awards — and beyond
This year, the Trace Awards will feature a range of categories celebrating musical excellence across different regions and genres
Experience Africa in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
If you had the opportunity to explore South Africa, to really see it, be confused by it, fall in love with the good, bad and the ugly, where would you start? Think of the last…
OPINION | Protect ideas of pan-Africanism
There needs to be a consolidation of the African identity away from the lens of Western civilisation
OPINION | Africa Day 2022 comes amid a divided continent
Despite the articulated goals by Africa’s founding fathers such as Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere for the United States of Africa, it seems the ideals of Africa’s unity only…
Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October
In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted
Open letter to Eritrea’s president: Let us visit detained activists and journalists
103 of Africa’s most prominent thinkers ask to visit their incarcerated colleagues in Eritrea
A life spent rewriting Africa
Binyavanga Wainaina was an exceptional writer, activist and human being