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West Africa has a growing and worrying drug problem. Yet much of global drug policy has focused on reducing drug supply in South American countries like Colombia, and the heavy use of law enforcement against street dealers and users.

With around 100 books of progressive political economy and political ecology penned about South Africa since 2000, the Marxist intellectual project here is utterly chaotic, but by no means in tatters.

Amilcar Cabral is widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential revolutionary theorists that the African World has ever produced.

Rwanda is a small country full of big drama. One such drama played out on 20 June 2015, at London Heathrow Airport.

A year ago, Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip. More than 2,100 Palestinians died in the bombing — seven out of ten were civilians, according to the United Nations. Israeli bombs killed 500 Palestinian children and orphaned 1,500 more.

Over the last two decades, Emmanuel Karenzi Karake has cut a striking figure in the world of Rwandan intelligence, having navigated the corridors of power with intellectual prowess.

Nineteen African nations meet this week in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their traditional seeds, while allowing commercial breeders to ma

To understand why the BRICS bloc’s proposed bank is a different and new banking dynamic, you need to identify and understand the nature of Empire in Africa.

With looming refugee and forced migration crises in the Mediterranean, Kenya, Myanmar, Syria, Burundi and elsewhere hitting international headlines, public attention is rightfully drawn to those people immediately affected by war, poverty, and persecution.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its agents in Ghana should not seek to pull the wool over the eyes of Ghanaians over public outcry against the Ebola vaccine trial, which has forced lead scientist Prof. Fred Binka to offer to “personally undergo the clinical trial as proof of its safety”.