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There has been a palpable and growing anger primarily from the white farmers in South Africa who have a feeling that they are being targeted through the farm murders, which they say have been spiralling out of control. On Monday, they gathered to protest over this under the #BlackMonday hashtag.
Kenyan authorities will arrest and charge the sister of opposition leader Raila Odinga with incitement to violence after attacks on the election board, the chief prosecutor’s office said on Monday. Odinga has pulled out of the re-run of an election he was due to contest on Thursday against President
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (1949-1987) was assassinated thirty years ago today, on 15 October 1987. He was one of the most confident and outspoken anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. Sankara’s life and political praxis continue to be significant in shaping and inspiring anti-imperial and Pan-African youth activism
Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF is planning a special vote to give veteran President Robert Mugabe a fresh five-year mandate as party leader, three sources said, strengthening his hand as rivals plot to succeed him. One member of the party’s politburo told Reuters the 93-year-old president could also use the
There is fear that there could be a repeat of the 2007/8 events that saw Kenya slide into one of the worst post-electoral crises in Africa. The fear of anarchy is high, and this has elicited calls for intervention from the United Nations. "If no serious political intervention
There was a flurry of mixed reactions, with most deriding American president Donald Trump for inventing his own African country after he erranoulsy referred to the country Namibia as "Nambia." When he was addressing African leaders during a lunch in New York on Wednesday he said, "Nambia&
Karl Marx and Friedriech Engels were very sentimental about the role of religion in how it influenced the way of thinking in people. They said that religion is an opium. It is an opium which drags people to accept poor conditions without complaining. When the Europeans came to colonize Africa,
Let’s start at a good place, let’s start at the beginning. Let’s arbitrarily say that the current political atmosphere in Kenya was born somewhere in the year 2002; in which the so-called Moi Orphans ganged up against the prince of the Kenyatta family and elected Emilio Kibaki
In 1899, a private journal that belonged to Gaspard Gourguard, a French soldier, was published. In his 9th of January 1817 entry, Gourduard had transcribed French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte as saying among other things, "… in reality, women are nothing more than machines for making children." It is a
Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday he disagreed with a Supreme Court ruling that nullified his win in last month’s presidential election, but that he would respect the decision and urged citizens to do the same. “The court has made its decision. We respect it. We don’
Thomas Sankara remains one of the most popular pan-African leaders the continent ever saw. He was a man moved by avant-garde ideas that are now even more relevant than they were during his short-lived tenure. Sankara’s Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle tackled issues of women’s
Efforts to alleviate Poverty in Africa often begin with the formulation and adoption of policies and directional documents directed at loosening it’s grip on communities. These policies ,like South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030, are often academically sound and politically empowering but we then discover, time and again,
Rwanda's incumbent leader Paul Kagame has sealed a crushing victory in presidential elections that granted him a third term in office, extending his 17 years in power. Kagame has won international plaudits for presiding over a peaceful and rapid economic recovery in the Central African nation since the
One of the most profound and iconic revolutionaries of our time is Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of an independent Ghana in 1957. He successfully led Ghana to attain its independence and it became the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence. However, his legacy has been flawed. In
There are so many African countries adorned with natural beauty, diverse cultures and rich wildlife and are on every traveller’s list. One such country is Rwanda. Rwanda is an East African country with a thriving economy. The country has made a tremendous comeback from the aftermath of the 1994
Africa has been witness to the advent of intense mobile penetration and because of this many mobile operators and other telecoms firms have registered significant growth. In South Africa, the largest mobile operator by subscriber base is Vodacom. It has 37.1 million subscribers, whilst its closest rival MTN has
