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Opinion & Analysis2 days ago

Interview with Lead Organizer of AAMA 2026, Prince Akpah, Pan-African Solidarity and Mobilisation Lead at Africans Rising

Infrastructure before enforcement: Why Kenya's speed camera ambush breaks the social contract
Politics & Society2 weeks ago

Infrastructure before enforcement: Why Kenya’s speed camera ambush breaks the social contract

Opinion & Analysis2 weeks ago

Literature, authorship and the human voice: Andrew Chatora’s Unstoppable March of the Human Condition

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Artificial Intelligence: Private ownership, collective risks

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Trump’s AI ambitions demand a clearer response from Africa

Politics & Society2 weeks ago

Maputo to Host 2026 All-African Movement Assembly for Activists & Human Rights Defenders

Politics & Society1 month ago

The passport, the database and the State: Who controls digital Zimbabwe?

Politics & Society1 month ago

Wicknell Chivhayo and trying to own Zimbabwe’s conscious culture is ephemeral and futile

Opinion & Analysis1 month ago

Olu Jacobs remembered: Nollywood’s elder statesman always acted for his country

Politics & Society1 month ago

Remembering the argument for progressive national gender equality consciousness

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When the Algorithm decides what we see: Who governs Africa’s digital democracy?

Politics & Society2 months ago

Zambia 2026: Beyond the ballot did SADC duck the election crisis? (SAPES Dialogue forum presentation)

Politics & Society2 months ago

Democracy in code: How digital power is reshaping sovereignty in Africa

Opinion & Analysis2 months ago

Fifa in Africa: has Gianni Infantino really helped football development?

Politics & Society2 months ago

Zambia at a crossroads: Preserving democracy beyond the ballot

Politics & Society2 months ago

Education is neither a commercial venture nor a credit facility but a basic need and a public good

Politics & Society2 months ago

The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies

Politics & Society2 months ago

The great ledger correction: Why cancelling the debt of the Global South is restitution, not forgiveness

Politics & Society2 months ago

Zambia’s opposition did not lose this election on the campaign trail. It lost it at the nomination desk

Politics & Society3 months ago

A mirror across the Zambezi: Why Zambia’s August 13 vote matters to Zimbabwe and SADC

Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York
Opinion & Analysis3 years ago

Zimbabwean writer Andrew Chatora awarded for land-themed novel in New York

David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review
Opinion & Analysis3 years ago

David Chasumba’s Behind the Facade & Other Short Stories: A review

Politics & Society3 years ago

In the face of autocracy the Togolese Civil League movement pushes for justice, accountability and democracy

Pan Africanism mural in Tanzania. Photo: Michael Branz/ CC BY 2.0
Politics & Society3 years ago

Opinion | PanAfricanists must seek a radical cure for the open wound that is the state in Africa

Andrew Chatora is an award-winning Zimbabwean author and noted exponent of the African diaspora novel.
Opinion & Analysis2 years ago

Vazhure’s Weeping Tomato: An Intrepid Tale of Interconnected Binary Opposites – A Review by Andrew Chatora

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Politics & Society3 years ago

Opinion | The Muhoozi Project is a hoax

Opinion & Analysis2 years ago

Jack Dorsey returns for the third edition of the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024

Politics & Society2 years ago

OPINION | Kenya protests: Either we urgently push for UN-led global tax reforms, or we face more conflict

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Politics & Society3 years ago

Europe has plans for Africa’s resources, and not for Africa’s benefit

Opinion & Analysis1 year ago

Remembering an African literary icon Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o —10 quotes: Part 1

Politics & Society2 years ago

Opinion — Pan-Africanist and global development expert Brian Kagoro reiterates longstanding opposition to ZIDERA

Climate activists holding a demonstration holding placards. One placard reads "Climate Justice for All"
Politics & Society2 years ago

Climate finance for the Global North and climate reparations for the Global South

Opinion & Analysis2 years ago

Andrew Chatora on the faultlines of nation-building

Pope Francis died on 25 April 2025. Flickr
Opinion & Analysis1 year ago

Reform or retreat? The Catholic church in Africa after Pope Francis