Xenophobia has emerged as a rare consistent and core aspect of President Trump’s foreign policy, directed domestically toward diaspora communities, and outwardly in equal measure. During a campaign speech in Minneapolis, then-candidate Trump disparaged the roughly 25,000-member Somali diaspora in the Twin Cities as “the disaster taking place in Minnesota.” Since his ascendance to the […]
What Nigerians know about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health (he's been in London for more than one month) comes from leaks and anonymous sources.
The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.
Vox's glossy presentations, crisp design and slick animations serve neoliberalism easily digestible to younger people and conducive to social media shares.
Israel’s recent rapprochement to African states is part of a coordinated effort by the government to get close to African countries.
The German government will have to make a substantial move towards accommodating the demands of the Namibian people.
Oloibiri is a town located a few kilometers away from the city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is known for sharing the same local government, of Ogbia, as the town of Otuoke where Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan was born. Perhaps more noteworthy is that the small Niger Delta town of Oloibiri […]
Karl Marx can be useful to people fighting for social justice and who at the same time are deeply religious.
Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.
The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.
EU countries outsource their “migration problem” to mostly authoritarian or unstable regimes. 24 African countries already receive funding to “stem migration.”
In the 1930s fascism’s face was immediately recognizable in colonial Africa. It was neither a foreign concept nor an external threat in Africa.
Every country in Africa is today less equal than it was in 2010; for the African masses the trickle-down benefits of economic growth have been relatively small.
"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)
Ghanaian political-economic actors are limited in their ability to change conditions because of massive debt and the influence of investors and loan-makers.
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.
No figure in the Arab world embodies the ideals and contradictions of Pan-Arabism than Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Why does being in on the joke not slow down the desire to save Africans?
Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.
Denis Sassou Nguesso's embarrassing attempt to ingratiate himself to Donald Trump.