Browsing: Africa

This week’s dash of Wednesday Wisdom comes from Assata Shakur, a prominent Black Liberation Army (BLA) figure living in exile in Cuba. This revolutionary elder reminds…

This week’s African proverb is a defence of quality over quantity – even with its ‘thousand’ legs, the poor millipede can’t pull off the graceful moves…

The city of Portland in the US state of Maine held its first Colored Convention on 6 October 1841. Between 1830 and the 1890s, over 200…

The smearing of African media as disinformation tools is an old imperialist tactic, designed to maintain control of the narrative about our continent. We’re accused of…

WARNING: This video contains violent scenes of the US’ war on drugs.’ On this day in 1975, Sandinista guerilla fighters in Nicaragua uncovered a covert US…

The victors wrote their version of history that we read in our school books, teaching an inaccurate context that claims one race invented everything, discovered everything,…

At the 79th session of the UN General Assembly last week, Edgar Leblanc Fils, president of the Presidential Council of the Transition of Haiti, reminded the…

Comedian Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) was shocked out how freely former US President Donald Trump discussed doing favours for pro-Israel donors, especially given how it goes unpunished…

Julian Assange says he was only released after pleading guilty to ‘the crime of journalism.’ In an address to the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee…

The National Bureau of Economic Research has released a report revealing that Black mothers-to-be in the US are 25% more likely to undergo an unnecessary C-section,…