It is indeed striking if not extraordinary that quite a few people don’t seem to recognise the underlying features that link the almost routinised murder perpetrated by the police/other agents of the state in Africa on an African people in the streets of Nairobi, Onicha, Igwe Ocha,&nbsp

The police are very brutal in their policing of the African working-class in Jamaica. However, oppressive conditions tend to give birth to resistance.

The attitude of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) denotes a certain understanding of the historical, political and socioeconomic dynamics in Mozambique that precludes a concerted diplomatic response to the persistent military conflict that threatens full-blown civil war.

We have faced many evictions in the City of Durban since our movement was formed in 2005. Almost all these evictions have been violent, unlawful and criminal.

[This was a presentation delivered at Wits and University of Michigan Workshop on the Politics of Municipal Infrastructure held at the Durban University of Technology, 12 July 2016.]

Liberia has had more than a decade to plan for the day when international peacekeepers in blue helmets and their civilian counterparts would eventually pack up and leave.

It is a new world, a different global village characterized by increased interconnectedness and interaction of people and movement of goods and services. Borders have become more porous than ever before and human interaction heightened. This is the reality of the today’s world.[1]

Last week, a 61-page human rights report about Ethiopia was released, detailing the government’s heavy-handed response to large and widespread anti-government protests and dissent over political and economic inclusion.

At least 5 people died and 60 were wounded by gunfire as police tried to obstruct two recent protests in Nyanza region.

One of the students that the apartheid colonialist police shot dead on 16 June 1976 was Hector Pieterson. According to the late Rev.