Africa
A common enemy: colonialism and imperialism
19 September 2023 Ahead of The World Transformed, Mohammed Elnaiem explores why understanding the relationship between imperialism and colonialism is essential for dismantling the global capitalist system
What’s behind Kenya’s protests?
27 July 2023 Over 30 people have died since protests erupted in Kenya in March 2023, Gathanga Ndung'u examines the movement's grievances and the long history behind the unrest
Debtors of the world, unite!
25 June 2023 Jayati Ghosh speaks about the growing debt crisis in the global south, the IMF’s never-ending affinity for austerity and the need to confront the power of financial capital
Breaking borders: an interview with Sarli Nana of Migrants Organise
18 June 2023 The Cameroonian migrant organiser reflects on his experience of the UK asylum system and decades of fighting for migrants' rights
Against crisis narratives: Return migration to Africa
17 May 2023 Despite popular imaginaries in the global north, there are no archetypal migrants, writes Emma Abotsi.
Youth disappointment as Nigeria chooses Tinubu
8 April 2023 Peter Obi's campaign had inspired a new generation hoping for change. Adaora Osondu-Oti explores how, instead, the incumbent party won a bitterly contested election
Tapping technology in Nairobi’s informal settlements
6 February 2023 New digital technologies are being used increasingly in water provision. Prince Guma reflects on how they have been adapted – and subverted – in informal settlements in Nairobi
A demand for dialogue: The movement to save Virunga National Park
10 December 2022 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a beloved national park is facing devastating oil exploitation. Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya speaks to local activist Pascal Mirindi about the ongoing resistance
Tunisia’s struggle for energy democracy
21 November 2022 Tunisian unions are not only fighting for better terms and conditions in the energy sector. They want democratic control, writes Ilyes Benammar
#EndSARS: Two years since the massacre
17 November 2022 Two years since protests successfully demanded to EndSARS, police brutality continues to be a problem in Nigeria. Obiora Ikoku reports
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes – review
29 August 2022 Achin Vanaik on a new book examining the realities behind the cult of Churchill
Going live from the picket line
18 April 2022 Wendell Daniel, aka StreetMic, describes how a lifelong interest in photography led to his regularly filming protests live from London’s streets
Egypt at 100
28 February 2022 Heba Taha explores the drastic political transformations of the Egyptian state 100 years since independence
Mali protests highlight French influence
1 February 2022 While sanctions imposed by ECOWAS have triggered protests, a deeper rejection of French control is surfacing in Mali, writes Fanny Pigeaud
Why football matters in Algeria
20 January 2022 The Algerian national football team’s recent victory in the Arab Cup raises old and new debates on the question of national identity, writes Mahfoud Amara
New normal, old struggles
14 January 2022 Twenty years on from 9/11, Ashish Ghadiali speaks with Sohail Daulatzai about the historical antecedents of the ‘war on terror’ and the ongoing struggle against racial capitalism
Diving into history
14 December 2021 Over 1.8 million people died on trans-Atlantic slave ships, including on hundreds that sank. Tara Roberts reports on the divers excavating the wrecks of a terrible trade
On feminist translation and learning from past struggles
14 November 2021 Kenyan feminist Wangui Wa Goro reflects on the experiences that fuelled a lifetime of intersectional feminist activism
The depths of injustice
5 September 2021 Jay V Haigler is a Diving With a Purpose (DWP) scientific diver and master instructor. Here he explains the power of educating through storytelling
Nigeria’s endless quest for democracy
1 September 2021 For Nigeria’s switch to civilian rule to be truly democratic, it must ensure that sovereignty resides with its people, writes Synda Obaji
The blood never dries
19 August 2021 While our government wants us to step back and forget what we know about the violence of Britain’s imperial state, Richard Gott says it’s time for a much deeper reckoning
Yetnahaw Gaâ! Algeria’s democratic resistance
22 January 2021 Sanhaja Akrouf explains how the fear that stopped Algerians from joining the uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 has now been broken
After the Spring
19 January 2021 Despite the carnage of contemporary Syria and Libya, and the ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of what was once described as the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad
End SARS and Fanon’s mission
11 January 2021 The uprisings against police brutality that swept across Nigeria must be contextualised within the country’s colonial history, argues Kehinde Alonge
Algeria: a youth revolution
12 December 2020 The Algerian regime has offered its youth a future of poverty, humiliation and repression, now it must go writes Zakaria Chaabi from Constantine, Algeria
Review – This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
16 November 2020 The final instalment in Dangarembga's trilogy is a provocative exploration of identity and race in modern Zimbabwe, writes Johanna Russell.
Ntando Yam: theatre as protest
28 August 2020 Phoebe Kisubi reflects on using participatory theatre as a tool for social and political activism among sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa
Democracy in focus: the undead state
9 January 2020 Brexit may finally have forced reform upon Britain’s zombie imperial constitution, writes Kojo Koram
Why we’ve joined the global climate strike
22 September 2019 Landry Ninteretse and Ian Rivera share perspectives from Kenya and the Philippines and call for universal energy systems that are clean and renewable, public and decentralised
The colonial origins of Africa’s health crisis
15 November 2018 Formerly colonised nations are still suffering the effects of underdevelopment and underinvestment in health infrastructure, writes Jessica Lynne Pearson.
Resistance and revolution in colonial Kenya
22 October 2018 Shehina Fazal reviews 'Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990' by Shiraz Durrani.
‘The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed’
18 October 2018 Mike Peters explores the legacy of Steve Biko, a radical who spent his life fighting for Black liberation and for the overthrow of the Apartheid government in South Africa.
Samir Amin: a vital challenge to dispossession
13 August 2018 Nick Dearden looks at the theories of one of Africa's greatest radical thinkers
China vs the US: The new imperial scramble for Africa
23 May 2018 Lee Wengraf writes that the rush for profits, economic volatility and militarization across Africa promises only instability, rising exploitation and violence.
After Zuma: Corruption and Capital in ‘BRICS’ South Africa
1 March 2018 Jacob Zuma's legacy of corruption and economic mismanagement will not be cured by a simple transfer of leadership. Patrick Bond examines the impact of steering South Africa towards BRICS membership.
Transition or succession? Zimbabwe’s future looks uncertain
8 December 2017 The fall of Mugabe doesn't necessarily spell freedom for the people of Zimbabwe, writes Farai Maguwu
The West owes Zimbabwe a future.
27 November 2017 Nick Dearden from Global Justice Now argues that after years of colonial domination and dodgy trade deals, the UK must make amends and support Zimbabwe in this uncertain time.
Strength in Unity: Why Pan Africanism matters today
24 November 2017 Drawing connections between events as disparate as the ‘social murder’ of Grenfell and recent mudslides in Sierra Leone, Remi Joseph-Salisbury points to the enduring relevance of Pan African thought for anti-racist struggle today.
The Marikana women’s fight for justice, five years on
13 October 2017 Marienna Pope-Weidemann meets Sikhala Sonke, a grassroots social justice group led by the women of Marikana
The violence of coltan: purchase of a global silence
24 June 2017 The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to witness devastating political violence, but the world refuses to act. Ishiaba Kasonga and Serge Egola Angbakodolo ask why?
The ‘new colonialism’: Rio Tinto in Madagascar
12 July 2016 As its wealth is seized by foreign interests, Africa is facing a colonial invasion in many ways as devastating as the one it suffered in the nineteenth century. Ross Hemingway reports.
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the power of resistance
25 October 2015 On the 20th anniversary of Saro-Wiwa’s murder, Nigerian activist Ken Henshaw describes how his struggle put justice at the centre of environmentalism
Burkina Faso: Liberation not looting
23 March 2015 Firoze Manji argues that the recent uprising in Burkina Faso throws light on the debate around development, and calls for our solidarity, not charity
Sherlock Holmes, the British Museum & an oily villain
14 February 2015 On Global Divestment Day Chris Garrard says its time for cultural institutions to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry
Culture and Revolution: The Pan-African Festival of Algiers
31 October 2014 Hamza Hamouchene introduces the revolutionary documentary, The Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969
Support the South African platinum miners’ strike
19 June 2014 The six-month strike action might be nearing its end, but the suffering of union members and their families will continue. Supporters have begun a campaign calling for donations, Edward Dingwall reports.
Out of the furnace, into the fire?
3 April 2014 Prossy Kakooza and Siobhán McGuirk report on the recent Anti-Homosexuality Act passed in Uganda, and the UK’s own draconian approach to LGBT asylum seekers.
Oil uprising: Two decades after Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death, the Ogoni struggle is reigniting
7 March 2014 Patrick Kane of War on Want and Sarah Shoraka of Platform report from the Niger Delta on the Ogoni people’s struggle against Shell and the wider mobilisation in Nigeria towards 2015 as a ‘year of change’
Nelson Mandela, CLR James and the Brixton radicals: how South Africa inspired South London
6 December 2013 When Nelson Mandela came to Britain, the one place he visited beyond Westminster and Buckingham Palace was Brixton – and he had a rapturous welcome. Here Darcus Howe looks back at how the anti-apartheid movement interwove with the experience of black people in the UK
To do justice to Mandela’s life, the struggle must continue
5 December 2013 Brian Ashley of South Africa's Amandla magazine says that in the battle to overcome inequality and achieve social justice, we will need many more Nelson Mandelas
