Browsing: Africa

For Wednesday’s Wisdom this week, we remember the words of great Congolese pan-African revolutionary Patrice Lumumba (1925-61). They’re as relevant as ever, with his home country…

Was the Cuban revolution positive for Black people in Cuba? We explore that question in this video, recorded from when African Stream spoke directly to Rolando…

The word ‘terrorist’ has been bandied around since the US kicked off its ‘War on T*rror’ in 2001 and really even before that. But who gets…

In this clip from a recent Haïti Inter interview, Haitian historian and journalist Michel Soukar argued that the political class and others who benefit from the…

When thinking of corruption, an African politician or state often comes to mind. That is because that is the image the mainstream media and Hollywood have…

After holding out for 13 years, Syria’s Bashar al Assad’s government fell to al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, with the capture of Damascus and subsequent exile of…

This week’s African proverb is a reminder that the same challenge can affect us differently – depending on our constitution. Do we bow to life’s pressures…

The struggle against censorship and in defence of independent media that serves the interests of the African majority has become a vital part of the Pan-Africanist…

Afro-Caribbean revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of his time. He died on this day, December 6th, in 1961. His…

The latest video of US President Joe Biden falling asleep during a summit – in Africa, this time – has been branded yet another ‘embarrassment’ for…