This time around, the colonisers have AI
When the West mastered gun technology, they exported their empire across the planet. The technology they have now is much more powerful.
Remember AFCON?
Behind the refereeing drama and rising revenues, AFCON 2025 exposed a tournament increasingly shaped by global capital rather than the long-term health of African football.
Have Election Crackdowns Become the Norm? Domestic and Cross-Border Repression in East Africa
Human rights abuses marred the presidential elections in Uganda in January 2026 and the contested polls in Tanzania in October 2025.
‘Halal’ investment scams resurge in Egypt
Halal scam: yes, it's a paradox. But these schemes are not what they seem.
Opposing genocide in the twenty-first century
Has opposing genocide become a threat to public safety? At a time when imperial offensives no longer bother to cloak themselves in justificatory rhetoric, doctoral student and activist Momodou Taal is among those who have paid the price.
The Ides of Congo: Willy Ngoma’s Death and a Republic at Risk
The death of Willy Ngoma — affectionately known within the AFC/M23 coalition as “Mr Quickly, Quickly” — marks more than the loss of a field commander.
Melrose: blend of hype and heritage
The Johannesburg suburb remains one of those rare ones that feel historic and perfectly ahead of the curve
The rubble of empire
Built by Italian Fascists in 1928, Mogadishu Cathedral was meant to symbolize “peaceful conquest. ” Today its ruins force Somalis to confront the uneasy afterlife of colonial power and religious authority.
The Hollowing of Sovereignty: Nigeria’s Trilemma and the Retreat of the State
In early February, an insurgent group attacked communities in Kwara, North Central Nigeria, killing over a hundred people.
A sinful cycle: How excise duties fuel the illicit economy they were meant to counter
The very taxes designed to discourage consumption of alcohol and tobacco have instead encouraged a parallel market where quality is unregulated, criminals thrive and the fiscus collects nothing.
Progress is exhausting
Pedro Pinho’s latest film follows a Portuguese engineer in Guinea-Bissau, exposing how empire survives through bureaucracy, intimacy, and the language of “development.
Settler colonialism in Kenya
In this latest work, Colin Leys turns to something more intimate: the life of a half–uncle, Norman Leys – a colonial doctor turned anti–racist reformer.
There is no vernacular
The architecture of southeastern Nigeria unsettles the neat binary between “indigenous” and “foreign.
The US-Europe love pact rekindles their colonial kink
People who claim to be our allies are applauding the Trump regime's invitation to join in devouring us.
The African Union is paralysed
MARCO RUBIO, JD Vance, and Donald Trump are wrong about the way the West was made, says African-American author and historian Howard French.
Water is the question, DA is not the answer
Two weeks ago after 23 days, Melville residents laced their tekkies and toyi-toyi’d against Joburg Water.
Food, Land, Water
In this piece, Sarah Cotte explores the political economy of the Gulf involvement in Africa, looking specifically at land investments, stressing that the Gulf states in their new 'scramble for Africa' should be categorised as …
Kenya’s democratic mirage: Expulsion of Kagoro as continental symbol
The deportation of Brian Bright Kagoro in February 2026 is not the story of one man’s expulsion; it is the unmasking of Kenya’s democratic mirage
Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB
The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
We have the tool to fix SA’s education crisis — it’s right there in the Constitution
South Africa’s 2026 Budget celebrates macroeconomic recovery while the funding pipeline to classrooms remains broken.