Burkina Faso Is on The Boil
And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."
And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."
Will popular resistance against the one-party rule of President Blaise Compaore in Burkina Faso succeed?
Social justice tours are tours which take the tourist through low income, economically depressed or working class neighborhoods.
Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?
Many Brazilian voters are so disillusioned with politics that in this traditionally left-leaning, post-right military dictatorship society, the right has made surprising gains in this election.
Zambia - the country its young people fondly call “Zed” - turns 50 in 2014. It was part of the first wave of African countries to gain independence in the 1960s.
Uhuru Kenyatta went to The Hague to defend himself against charges of war crimes. He's always managed to stay one step ahead of the Court.
While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.
It is clear that the way in which the outbreak is portrayed in popular media has contributed to confusion, fear and a panicked response.
The general trend has been to make immigration more difficult, rather than improving the conditions for asylum seekers and refugees.
The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH), the organization responsible for the brilliant Africa for Norway campaign, is back with their annual awards for the worst and best fundraising videos by international development organizations: …and, like last year, Africa is a Country is on the jury! Judging for the Rusty and Golden Radiator Awards will commence soon, however we need […]
It turns out the majority of Burkinabé favor progressive change on gender rights.
Four years ago I interviewed Azu Nwagbogu, director of Lagos-based African Artists’ Foundation and the annual photography festival LagosPhoto. At the time the interview appeared in Guernica, LagosPhoto had just finished its second year and Nwagbogu’s ambitions for photography in Africa’s most populous country were still developing. On the occasion of LagosPhoto’s five-year anniversary, I spoke […]
Israel's arms exports to African countries has more than doubled in the last four years: African countries spent $223m on Israeli arms in 2013 compared to $107m in 2012.
Why is it so difficult to understand when we Africans say that it’s offensive?
Politics in and about Ethiopia has become so heavily “ethnicized” that we have a difficult time distinguishing between ideology and identity.
Lara Pawson's book about the complex and violent events on and after the 27th of May, 1977: the date of a supposed coup d’etat in Luanda, Angola.
The Dutch state and its economy are profiting generously from their annual blackface partay.
Burkinabe want to sweep out bad governance, political patronage, poverty, lack of respect for human rights and freedom of speech.
The essayist T.O. Molefe (he is a contributor here too) has a new op-ed column up at nytimes.com. He writes about “South Africa’s War on Women.” The oped opens with a discussion of why South Africans appear so blase about gender violence. Molefe writes, “… crimes against black lesbians don’t register on the public’s radar amid the […]