Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...
Across Africa, there is a deep, justified and often emotional conversation about history. Colonialism. Exploitation. Economic ...
Congolese people carry their belongings as they flee from their villages around Sake, in Masisi territory, following clashes ...
IN FEBRUARY 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US president George W Bush stood before a small gathering of ...
For too long, African borders have functioned less as lines of cooperation than as instruments of separation, inherited from ...
Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has urged his people engaging in xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals to ...
European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...