Browsing: Africa

In a striking critique, Shaeed Bolsen (@shahidkbolsen on X), founder of @MiddleNation_, challenged the Western narrative of superiority based on material wealth. He noted that the…

Jack Daniel’s whiskey might sound as American as it gets, but it owes much to Africans from the Congo-Angola region – as does Brazil’s most popular…

The situation in Haiti reflects deep-seated global inequalities perpetuated by imperialist interests and systemic exploitation. Despite Haiti’s challenges being in large part due to subjugation and…

Aid organisations are generally thought of as good things. Humanity in action, as it were. But dig a little deeper, and it soon becomes clear that…

This is the story of the legendary Queen Nanny of the Maroons. An African woman born in present-day Ghana, kidnapped and sold into slavery in Jamaica,…

Mukasa Dada’s well known for his role popularising the slogan “Black Power.” He did it alongside Kwame Ture as a youth organiser in the Student Non-Violent…

Let’s be honest and call the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade what it really was: The European Slave Trade. That’s because the Atlantic Ocean couldn’t have enslaved anyone.…

The Pentagon recently failed its 7th audit in a row, failing to account for $824 billion in defence expenditure. Could one reason be its covert operations…

In 2024, African Stream was banned from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, even Gmail and Google Drive after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused us of…

In the British game show, ‘Golden Balls,’ which aired between 2007 and 2009, contestants competed to win as much money as possible by choosing from balls…