Browsing: Pan African

For Wednesday’s Wisdom this week, we remember the words of great Congolese pan-African revolutionary Patrice Lumumba (1925-61). They’re as relevant as ever, with his home country…

The word ‘terrorist’ has been bandied around since the US kicked off its ‘War on T*rror’ in 2001 and really even before that. But who gets…

The struggle against censorship and in defence of independent media that serves the interests of the African majority has become a vital part of the Pan-Africanist…

On 2 December, Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua announced she has gathered a ‘Pan-African’ group of lawyers to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1 of @FDCOfficial1…

Ahead of the 60th anniversary of Pan-Africanist Malcolm X’s assassination, Dr Ilyasah Shabazz, his third daughter, said at a New York City press conference on 15…

Nigeria plans to replace foreign cartoons with locally produced content out of concern that the country’s 110 million children are exposed to harmful ‘foreign’ behaviours that…

Over a month ago, the US accused African Stream – without evidence – of being a Russian propaganda outfit. Since then, we’ve been banned by social…

It’s an intergenerational struggle that goes back at least one century: The fight for Africa’s total unification. Long understood to be the key to Africa’s freedom…

On this day in 1987, visionary pan-African icon and leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara was assassinated by his longtime friend and, at the time, minister…

How are criminals dealt with in civilised societies? You could say by the rule of law. But that’s not the case in the United States, said…