Author: Dennis Kahohi

There is a pretty straight line from colonial exploitation to modern-day neocolonialism. Few African countries process their own raw materials – rather, the value is added…

On 9 February 2010, a jury convicted Jamal Trulove, at the time an aspiring rapper in San Francisco, California, for first-degree murder with a firearm and…

Today we delve into the controversy surrounding the recent Miss South Africa pageant. The details of the event have highlighted tensions between xenophobia and Pan-Africanism in…

When Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin received a commission from a UK NGO to write about Nigeria’s newest and biggest oil refinery in the context of climate…

On this day in 1977, South African anti-apartheid icon and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko, was arrested by apartheid security agents. He was…

On this day, 18th August 1823, an uprising that would become the largest the British empire had seen – involving over 10,000 enslaved Africans – took…

An August 2024 report by Israeli human rights group B’tselem (@btselem on IG and X) details the abusive conditions Palestinian detainees endure in Israeli prisons, based…

Algeria’s Olympic boxing champion, Imane Khelif, sent her country into wild celebrations with her historic win. But she hasn’t finished fighting yet, launching a legal battle…

The racist, Islamophobic, and anti-migrant riots in England and the British-occupied North of Ireland have exposed that the rot runs right up to the top. In…

An African teenager has invented glasses that could revolutionise life for blind people. They have sensors that bleep to warn the wearer of nearby obstacles. It’s…