Browsing: Politics

South Africa is going through a bit of a rough patch in relations with the US. The country seems to have become Donald Trump’s favourite African…

Nelson Mandela did not go to prison for his politics but because he was a “terrorist” trying to overthrow South Africa’s “legitimate” government – that’s the…

Guinea’s founding leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré – one of Africa’s leading statesmen of all time – was born on this day (9 January) in 1922. As…

Burkina nightclubs bounce to the sound of Cuban music. But how did Salsa find its way to West Africa? History, politics and immigration played their part,…

Bread is at the heart of politics across the world. It represents labour, life and livelihoods. Ruling classes down the ages have always offered ‘bread and…

2024 was a year of elections. Voters in more than 60 countries went to the polls. Some incumbents hung on to power, while others got the…

Ghana’s getting its first female vice-president: Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, who was president-elect John Mahama’s running mate in the country’s Dec 7 election. It’s seen as a…

Land and Zimbabwe. Like Siamese twins, the two are often mentioned together. That’s because the southern African nation of 16.7 million has had land at the…

South Africa-based civil society organisation Open Secrets’ investigation has revealed Africa’s corrupt political elites have laundered embezzled public funds through South Africa’s real estate sector while…

Two months after pleas to pardon a Black prisoner, Marcellus Williams, in a case with contradictions went unheeded, US President Joe Biden granted his son, Hunter,…