Browsing: Revolutionary

Revolutionary Guyanese writer and activist Walter Rodney would have been 83 years old today. We remember the guerrilla intellectual, who left a lasting legacy on academia…

In this 6 March clip from his speech to the South African National Assembly, revolutionary Julius Malema asserted that South Africa will not bend to the…

Six decades ago, the African world was robbed of two revolutionary giants. Kenya’s freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto and pan-African revolutionary Malcolm X were assassinated within…

The Alliance of Sahel Sates (AES) passport is here! It means citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger can now travel freely to one another’s countries.…

On this day, 16 February in 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of revolutionary Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced US-backed…

West, Central and North Africa have seen a number of successful power grabs in recent years. These can broadly be divided into two types: the anti-imperialist…

In 1983, in what was then known as Upper Volta—now Burkina Faso—a revolutionary 33-year-old military captain known as Thomas Sankara (1949-87) rose to power through a…

In this week’s ‘Wednesday Wisdom,’ Argentina-born Cuban revolutionary and ally to the African struggle for liberation, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (1928-67), reminds us that the Congo problem…

The Sahel region has become emblematic of what is possible when Africans decide to smash the chains of neo-colonialism and seize their sovereignty. Incredibly inspirational has…

On this day (14 January) in 1965, Ghana welcomed the Argentine-born revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-67) during his three-month journey across Africa. Guevara’s mission was to forge…