“African Solutions for African Problems” rings hollow as the AU continues to rely on external support to finance its core functions and programmes, especially in conflict resolution and peacekeeping.

Amidst Kenya's #RejectFinanceBill protests, as the echoes of dissent reverberate through the streets, a generation rises to challenge the pillars of a colonial legacy that still looms large. Dominated ...

The ability of African leaders to go rogue and begin looking at policies that benefit their people even at the expense of Western interests is growing while Western countries are not able to push back ...

In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, ...

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies.

Yusuf Ahmad is a researcher specializing in Africa and the Middle East. He has lived and worked extensively across the continent and holds two master’s degrees in African history and anthropology.

Sam Chian teaches economics and social studies at an upper secondary school in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He ...

Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.

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Rasna Warah is a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War ...

Oyunga Pala is a Kenyan journalist, editor and a curator of The Elephant’s series on the Gen revolution. He resides in the Netherlands.

The Tanzanian government is threatening to evict more than 80,000 Maasai from the Ngorongoro world heritage site, claiming that the Maasai must be cleared from their land in the interests of ...