Tanks, but No Tanks
“If they don’t pay,” President Donald Trump warned of NATO allies, “I’m not going to defend them.” Currently, his official position is that the United States would reconsider its defense commitments i...
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The People’s Strongman
Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not Gh...
Imported Morality: How Colonialism Redrew the Sexual Thresholds of the Egypt
Meet Nyankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, two men buried together in the same tomb during the 5th dynasty in Egypt. Despite both having wives and families, the painting shows them embracing and touching noses....
Building Nations: Modernism in the Post-Colonial Psyche
Located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, ‘La Maison du Peuples’ (the House of the People) stands as an amalgamation of brutalist formidability and soft ornamentation. Its warm concrete facade blends into...
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Child Soldier or Perpetrator? The Complicated Guilt of Dominic Ongwen
Dominic Ongwen’s conviction for war crimes committed as a former child soldier in Uganda raises difficult questions about the intersection of legal guilt, moral culpability, and the lasting impact of...
White Gold, Red Flags
China’s Claim Over Zimbabwe’s White Gold
Immaculate Citizenship School Kinshasa
Church-run schools threaten civic unity in the DRC
Democracies Are Failing Democracy
Democracy, once promising in West Africa, is on the decline. With China and Russia poised to exploit this decline, the US and its democratic allies need to redefine what democracy truly means if they...
Past Injustices, Present Dilemmas: The Reparations Tightrope
Lessons in reparations from Zambia
Bricks, Not Bullets
African Countries are Paying the Price for Private Military Corporations
The Onus Is on Big Oil
International oil corporations divest in African oil and gas assets citing environmentalism, but ultimately cause harm to the environment.
Postcolonial Plague: The Legacy of Apartheid South Africa in Addressing the HIV Epidemic
The legacies of apartheid, corruption, and colonialism that linger in the South African collective consciousness provided the perfect climate for conspiracy theories around HIV/AIDS to proliferate.
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OBIdients: A Light In The Dark for Nigeria
Nigeria’s democracy is troubled. But, Peter Obi and the Labour Party’s campaign success is a sign of hope.
Nairas in; Votes Out: The 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election and the (Un)Democratic State of the African Giant
In the wake of the 2023 Nigerian presidential election, the future of Africa’s leading democracy appears fragile.
Has the Erstwhile African Dream Awoken? The Fall of Socialist Economic Policy in Post-Independence Tanzania and the Rise of ‘Africapitalism’
On the African continent, Africapitalism must not experience the same fate as socialism.
Just a Matter of Time: Global Educational Equality
With the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals looming overhead, it is essential to recognize that countries worldwide are unlikely to universal educational equality一it is high-time we start...
Mothers & Motherlands: The Forgotten Legacy of Slavery in the United States
An attempt to honor the legacy of slavery, this article examines the mothers and motherlands lost by enslaved peoples, in particular those coming from the Mussulo Peninsula, located left of the Angola...
Ethiopia: A Country in Crisis
As the fighting in Ethiopia between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front rages on, the need for peace is reaching a critical level amid a worsening crisis.
