Haiti’s next election is less than two weeks away. Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance before cheering multitudes on September 30, 2015 (anniversary of the…
An elaboration of a public lecture given at Rhodes University. In this short paper, I want to argue that African unification, under the leadership…
Nelson Mandela Foundation This is an edited transcript of economist Professor Thomas Piketty’s address to the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which took place at the University of…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is holding its tenth Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi from 15 to 18 December. This is the first of six blogs I intend…
The ‘Faustian Pact’ metaphor as explanation for the South African liberation movement’s 1990s capitulation to neoliberal capitalism is offered by Ronnie Kasrils. As Africa’s most revered white…
The picture of the little body of Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian refugee, which washed up on a beach in Turkey made even a ‘Devil’ to shed some tears.…
Typically, Black women’s deaths don’t garner much media attention, but this week the deaths of Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman became national news. According to law enforcement officials,…
An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly…
All Peace loving people around the World, and particularly those who have worked for many years for the Abolition of All Nuclear Weapons, must have been encouraged and…
When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonder “Why there are no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of them. We have…
By Tesfaye Demmellash (PhD) After noting in a recent writing the “paralyzing” grip of fear on the Ethiopian people, namely, our inability in the face of naked and…
Julian Assange, founder and editor of WikiLeaks, has now been a refugee in the Ecuadoream embassy in London for three years. The key issue in his extraordinary incarceration…
Today I want to introduce you to a bigot and a Nobel laureate who ultimately is a coward and self-serving politician like the best of them. I am…
I have written several articles that have addressed Zimbabwean Human rights and rule of Law, as well as South African Foreign Policy. By Ken Sibanda I now turn…
— “Many in position of power think the world has become overpopulated recently, and Africa takes the center of attention because of the constant increase in population” —…
Source : the corge I don’t mince words, I don’t hold back how I feel about things. And when I feel strongly about something I may curse, so…
“I’ve never felt I was an important person. Africa has changed how I feel about myself. Everyone I met here made me feel special, important, attention-worthy. When I…
The securitisation of immigration control has failed to solve the migrant crisis because it ignores the root cause: a global system that puts profits before people. Algerian migrant…
When Mandela arrived in 1939 in Johannesburg, fleeing from an arranged marriage, he was a smart countryside boy who unfortunately quickly developed an inferiority complex against the urban…
In response to the Ebola epidemic in Guinée, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the world noticed two distinctly different responses: one from the USA and France, carried out by…
By Dietrich Fischer* 8 April 2015, TRANSCEND Media Service – Johan Galtung** is often asked to define peace journalism. In the most concise way, he says, it is to…
Let’s me tell you what is on the world news agenda for the next months: world overpopulation! Some people think the world is becoming overpopulated. And, surprisingly Africa…
A relief art-work showcasing different traditional dances of South Sudan by David Morbe. © The Niles | Aping Kuluel – See more at: http://www.theniles.org/articles/?id=1517#sthash.my5xasYB.dpuf South Sudanese innocent people were caught…
By Raïs Neza Boneza It takes us four hours to cruise on the peaceful waves of the Lake Kivu, an area that has known decade…
Ali A. Mazrui the great humanist joined the ancestors on Sunday, 12 October, 2014 in Binghamton, New York, where he had lived since 1989. He had been living…