Windhoek –Veterans of the Namibian liberation struggle narrate how the two-decade struggle for independence against the South African colonial administration began in a documentary […]
18 July is the Nelson Mandela International Day, adopted in November 2009 by the UN General Assembly, as a tribute to the founding president […]
Of all the controversial issues in America, my favorite has to be the Gun Rights and Gun Violence dramas. What can I say? I […]
‘The story of Gandhi that we’ve been told is a lie’ Arundhati Roy The real struggles and battles of actual heroes such as Ayyankali […]
In many countries, the proportion of the total national budget spent on the military, is a lion’s share compared to other priorities. And […]
Hubert Sauper is a very charming man. His methods of engagement—eye contact, attentiveness, enthusiasm, easy laughter and self-deprecation—seem genuine, but they’re also invariably […]
Anthropologists have written for at least a hundred years of the so-called “Bushman.” I am descended of these First Nations people in Southern Africa, […]
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century that took place from 1904 until 1907 in Namibia known […]
The elections of July and October 2006 marked the end of a particularly dramatic decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This included […]
One thing that we have not done here and will not do is begin our survey of the African presence in Asia with enslavement. […]
‘The National Dialogue is dead’. The verdict comes from Ghazi Salaheddin Atabani, one of the longest-serving Islamist intellectuals of the Bashir era, who defected […]
Hans Silvester-This is Africa through my Lens Hans Silvester, born in 1938 in Lorrach, Germany is an acclaimed award winning photographer who has […]
Fanta a griot singing at an engagement party The griots are above all professionals who represent as a group, a well-defined social caste. […]
Published for the 40th anniversary of Guinea-Bissauan revolutionary Amilcar Cabral’s death, this book is a crucial link in the colonial liberation narrative. The book’s […]
Civil society organisations are doing good work in Mali. But their job is being made more difficult by the need to address the root […]
Looking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the majority of her country’s people but a dream […]
0 President Johnson and Dr. King Many died. Millions suffered. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a Civil Rights Act outlawing […]
Why has it been so difficult for the Nigerian government to fight the scourge of Boko Haram, which has infiltrated so many sectors of […]
(Photo: Twin Design/Shutterstock) Voluntourism is ultimately about the fulfillment of the volunteers themselves, not necessarily what they bring to the communities they visit. • […]
An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to between seven and 10 years in prison on terrorism charges, including “spreading false news” […]
Photo: http://bit.ly/1m3q4Gr by Rosa Lia: The Palestine-Israel Journal One conversation in a coffee shop in Ramallah with a Palestinian who spent 10 years […]
It didn’t take long this week for the architects of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq to apply their makeup and jump […]
Image Telam, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica Uruguayan President Jose Mujica conveyed his concern at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling and held that the vulture […]
No woman should lose her status, livelihood or property when her husband dies, yet millions of widows in our world face persistent abuse, discrimination, […]
Across the world, forests provide employment, energy, nutritious foods and a wide range of other goods and ecosystem services with tremendous potential to contribute […]
