Author: Dennis Kahohi

Following the 1884 Berlin Conference, European powers went on a brutal rampage claiming African territories for themselves. Italy’s piece of the pie was modern-day Ethiopia. However,…

A teacher at West Charlotte High School in the US state of North Carolina has stirred up controversy over her usual choice of Black history month…

Clifton Walker was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on February 28th, 1964, as he drove home from the International Paper Plant in Mississippi. It was…

Fifty-nine years ago, two Pan-African greats were taken from us. Kenya’s freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto and Black civil-rights legend Malcolm X were assassinated within the…

The Ottoman Empire lasted over six centuries, yet their imperial rule – which endured longer than the Europeans’ in Africa – is often left out of…

It’s a critical moment for Julian Assange – who this week is making one final appeal to the UK’s high court to block his extradition to…

As part of Black History Month, we celebrate Afro hair. It’s hard to imagine now, but even our beautiful, natural curls were used against people of…

Violence has escalated in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between M23 militants and the DRC army. Unfortunately, rockets and bombs have…

Sanctions are portrayed by the West as a way of punishing wrong-doers. Putting aside the question of who appointed the West the world’s policeman, the fact…

Today marks the 82nd birthday of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. The youngest of seven children, Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana.…