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No victory was achieved for the #Feesmustfall campaign last Friday. Let’s be clear about that. No fees have
No victory was achieved for the #Feesmustfall campaign last Friday. Let’s be clear about that. No fees have
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.
The Pan-Africanist intellectual and journalist Bennie Bunsee (79) passed away on October 10th in Cape Town,
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.
"Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation" lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.
The fearlessness with which South African students confront their society's contradictions, suggests much more than fees may fall.
In April 2012, Ingrid Turinawe, then leader of Uganda’s Forum for Democratic Change Women’s League, was
Real regional integration would mean both the end of trade barriers and the local subsidies that distort trade flows and prevent competition.
Demands for racial justice and concerns about economic inequality are coming together in a powerful call for change that cannot be ignored or easily dismissed.
Two weeks ago, on October 6th, Nigeria’s former oil minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, was arrested in London
Following protest action at the University of Cape Town and Wits University in Johannesburg against higher
Bizarrely, for all the attention paid Piketty’s visit to South Africa, we've learned very little about what he actually said. So, what did he tell his hosts?
“What is the difference between refugees and ‘normal’ citizens besides the fact that the former had to flee from their homes? There is none.”
Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”
if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola's state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands.
October 11 is International Day of the Girl Child, and October 25 Tanzania will run Presidential
This transition from conflict to post-conflict represents a different approach to solve the underlying causes that gave raise to Colombia's violence.
Writing from afar plus writing with sun glasses that are heavily tainted with ideology is dangerous.
A list of articles to read, twitter accounts to follow, blogs to bookmarked to make sense of the ever evolving situation in Burkina Faso.
President Michel Kafando is back in charge in Burkina Faso, but now what?