
The core of Samir Amin’s politics
The Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin’s contributions to historical social science—and revolutionary theory—span an almost mind-boggling breadth.
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
The Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin’s contributions to historical social science—and revolutionary theory—span an almost mind-boggling breadth.
A brief history of MN Roy, an Indian delegate to the Mexican Communist Party and how the Soviet Union came to support liberation efforts in colonized nations.
The pain caused by the South African Apartheid government has been widely recorded. But we may not have heard the half of it.
The relationship of South African former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela with her daughter is a perfect metaphor for the state of the country’s politics.
Lily Saint talks with historian William Worger about the archive of sponsored comics by South Africa’s Apartheid government that he is amassing at UCLA.
The rise of populism across the US and Western Europe has been well documented, but it is not only an American or European issue. The case of Lesotho.
South Africa’s problems are no longer specific to the apartheid legacy, but about more global issues of poverty and inequality.
For Zimbabweans, we’re back where we started, then. Hope, no change. Still.
In a new film, five young Zulu women set off on a trek in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino poachers.
So far, the only real beneficiaries of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea are Ethiopia and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
Rugby in South Africa is generally understood to be a white sport, but contemporary statistics reveal that a great many more black people than white people play rugby there.
When former Springbok Ashwin Willemse walked off a SuperSport TV set, he forced conversations on racism in South African rugby and its sports media.
The complicated relationship of Jean -Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon.
When will the state-sanctioned violence in Cameroon be sufficient to cause Western nations to stop supporting President Paul Biya and his military?
Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.
Recent events reveal the Mnangagwa administration in Zimbabwe will extend, if not intensify, the kleptocracy, corruption and repression of the Mugabe regime.