As political instability and shrinking civic spaces intensify across the continent, global human rights defenders and grassroots organizers will converge in Maputo for the 3rd All-African Movements ...

Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure, convenience risks becoming a new ...

Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing victory claims and allegations of electoral interference. The emerging ...

We are living through a profound contradiction in how our state treats its young. In the speeches, they are our “youth dividend,” the hustler generation whose energy will build the nation. In the ...

The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies The modern autocrat doesn’t need a ...

“The result on Thursday is not really in doubt. What should trouble the likely winner is how little of it was earned in the last three months – and what that says about the state of Zambian politics”.

No African teams made it past the quarter-finals of the 2026 men’s football World Cup, but their strategic and tactical play left a lasting impression. The success of African teams doesn’t come out of ...

Bitcoin promised Africa a radical path to monetary sovereignty, bypassing legacy colonial currency traps. Today, that revolutionary potential is being hollowed out by a performative, NGO-style savior ...

In South Africa and across the globe, systemic governance failures are being weaponized into rampant anti-Black xenophobia. This calculated ethno-nationalism forces oppressed communities to project ...

The 1960s is a significant era in Abdullah Ibrahim’s story. It’s a time when the South African master’s international career as a jazz pianist was gradually established and he laid the foundations for ...

Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers Lithium, the “white gold” driving the green energy transition, ...

A proposed U.S.-funded Ebola quarantine facility ignited fiery protests across Kenya, leaving two dead and forcing a High Court transparency order. But this isn’t just a health crisis. The controversy ...