Browsing: africa

2024 has been a defining chapter in the story of Africa, particularly for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The vast nation yet again faced a series…

Since time immemorial, oppressors have dehumanized their victims. The downtrodden are made to appear like sub-humans that are not deserving of any sympathy nor that they…

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it remains a stubborn myth that the North of the US was not involved in slavery. The prevailing narrative is…

In a striking critique, Shaeed Bolsen (@shahidkbolsen on X), founder of @MiddleNation_, challenged the Western narrative of superiority based on material wealth. He noted that the…

In August 2024, British seven-time Formula-1 champion Lewis Hamilton, speaking at the Dutch Grand Prix, said it was high time that African locations were added to the…

Aid organisations are generally thought of as good things. Humanity in action, as it were. But dig a little deeper, and it soon becomes clear that…

Let’s make banana beer. Africans were using locally available crops to brew beer long before Europeans introduced their own techniques, but East Africans stand out in…

The Pentagon recently failed its 7th audit in a row, failing to account for $824 billion in defence expenditure. Could one reason be its covert operations…

In the British game show, ‘Golden Balls,’ which aired between 2007 and 2009, contestants competed to win as much money as possible by choosing from balls…

The oft-quoted Jomo Kenyatta saying goes something like, ‘When the white man came, he had the Bible. We had the land. He told us to shut…