Imagine all the people, living life in peace: Stop the killing, end the siege of Gaza By Marilyn Langlois

Imagine: A group of kids in Richmond playing outside. Maybe a pick-up soccer Children in Gaza…

Binyavanga: Africa’s bankrupt middle-class

In the attempt to make Africa more like Europe (and Africans more like Europeans), perfectly convenient…

SOMALIA: Renowned female artist and MP Saado Ali Warsame shot dead in Mogadishu

Mogadishu (RBC) Unidentified gunmen have today shot and killed renowned Somali artist Saado Ali Warsame near…

Young Namibian makes satellite booster from scrap

A young inventor from northern Namibia has innovatively used scrap material to build a satellite dish…

Trouble in the Village: A Review of Dak’ Art 2014

Dak’ Art 014 is an art exhibition showing over 120 artists of African descent. It opened…

Africa Top 10 Problems: Not the ones You were thinking about! By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN

Africa is not poor. Africa is a rich continent inhabited by poor people. Once we fix…

Congolese: Returning home and building a dream

By Daisy Carrington and Dianne McCarthy* Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has found…

Live from Bangui: Why Inclusive Dialogue Matters in CAR

Last June, when I first arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR), one of the resident…

Letter from Gaza by Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert on 20 July 2014

Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child,…

‘Paths to Freedom’: Chronicles of the Namibian Struggle by Andreas Thomas

Windhoek –Veterans of the Namibian liberation struggle narrate how the two-decade struggle for independence against the…

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July is the Nelson Mandela International Day, adopted in November 2009 by the UN General…

Death by Machete or death by Gun?

Of all the controversial issues in America, my favorite has to be the Gun Rights and…

Nation celebrating wrong heroes: Arundhati Roy

‘The story of Gandhi that we’ve been told is a lie’ Arundhati Roy The real struggles…

War-Such an unnecessary evil By Tumusiime K. Deo

                                                                              In many countries, the proportion of the total national budget spent on the military, is…

We Come as Friends 2014: interview with Hubert Sauper By Eric Hynes

  Hubert Sauper is a very charming man. His methods of engagement—eye contact, attentiveness, enthusiasm, easy…

Egalitarianism and Nonviolence: Gifts of the Khoe-San By Bernedette Muthien

Anthropologists have written for at least a hundred years of the so-called “Bushman.” I am descended…

Remenbering the 20th Century first Genocide: The Herero and Namaqua Genocide

The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century that took…

DRC Elections: Will Kabila stay or go? And many other questions on the road to 2016 – By Manya Riche and Kris Berwouts

The elections of July  and October 2006 marked the end of a particularly dramatic decade in…

Africans in Asia During Age of Enslavement: Revolts and Resistance By Runoko Rashidi

One thing that we have not done here and will not do is begin our survey…

Sudan: is the National Dialogue really dead? (And did it ever really exist anyway?) – By James Copnall

‘The National Dialogue is dead’. The verdict comes from Ghazi Salaheddin Atabani, one of the longest-serving…

AFRICA Lens: Hans Silvester

Hans Silvester-This is Africa through my Lens   Hans Silvester, born in 1938 in Lorrach, Germany…

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  Fanta a griot singing at an engagement party The griots are above all professionals who…

Book Review: Claim No Easy Victories – The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral By Prince Ofori-Atta

Published for the 40th anniversary of Guinea-Bissauan revolutionary Amilcar Cabral’s death, this book is a crucial…

The road to peace in Mali: political roadblocks and other obstacles

Civil society organisations are doing good work in Mali. But their job is being made more…

Desolation and despair in Libya: the murder of Salwa Bugaighis By LINDSEY HILSUM

Looking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the…

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