Browsing: Africa

Activist and academic Ramona Edelin – famous for popularising the term ‘African-American’ – has died at the age of 78. She argued that the diaspora must…

The 25th of March is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During four centuries, between 10-12 million Africans…

This week’s Facts of the Week centre on our missing artefacts – missing, that is, from Africa. We know where many of them are: in European…

Seventy per cent of Baltimore is Black, and its homicide rate makes it one of the most dangerous cities in the world. For the last decade,…

From Palestinian flags held high in Abuja to drums beating a thousand times for a ceasefire in Gaza, here’s our weekly photo dump Abuja, Nigeria -…

On this day two years ago, the 64th US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, died aged 84. Her legacy in Africa and the Middle East is…

Revolutionary Guyanese writer and activist Walter Rodney was born on this day in 1942. We remember the guerrilla intellectual, who left a lasting legacy on academia…

Widely considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer the world has ever seen, the legacy of Muhammad Ali extends far beyond the ring. Throughout his career,…

A Venn diagram showing the overlap of the political ideology of Zionism and white supremacy should not be a surprise to our people. Both involve the…

Canada will ban all arms shipments to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has announced. The move comes after lawmakers voted 204-117 on Tuesday in favour…