When Ugandans head to the presidential polls on 15 th January, they will be voting for the seventh time under the mostly liberal 1995 constitution that opened the country up to political participation ...

Elections ordinarily serve two main purposes. One, they facilitate the peaceful change of leaders or the renewal of the mandate of incumbents, which is necessary for their legitimacy regardless of the ...

Of all dead and living revolutionaries, perhaps none elicits as much fear in the Western ruling class today as Frantz Fanon. As a new generation of radical activists and scholars draws on Fanon to ...

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The US invasion of Venezuela and the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro Moros this weekend doesn’t come as a surprise, but is no less shocking. American military forces have been building in the ...

We Ugandans return to the polls on the 15 th of January, after five years of something best forgotten. This country has strange politics. In the 20-odd years between 1962 and 1980, when we never held ...

Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

The lack of a focused policy since the 1990s has pushed the cashew nut sector into perennial decline. The sector’s disintegration started when the state-owned Kenya Cashewnut factory ollapsed in 1997 ...

In the face of the Ethiopian government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, the TPLF must urgently seek to have the accord amended and demand its enforcement. As ...

You may be familiar with the common myths about drylands—that they contribute little to biodiversity and food systems, that they are unproductive and unworthy of political and economic investment, and ...