Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (90), who passed away on last week, was the son of a Spanish immigrant from Galicia, Spain.  A significant world personality in the second half of the 20th century, Castro was regarded, love him or hate him, as a superb fighter, athlete, strategist and orator (some

You can learn as much about a man from his critics as you can from his admirers. Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state under Nixon, described Fidel in his memoirs as perhaps the most genuine revolutionary leader in power at that time.

Tuesday 22 November marked one year since Professor Sam Moyo passed away tragically after a road accident while attending a conference in India.

As usual the Moroccan Kingdom, participating in the Africa-Arab Summit held this week in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, tried to undermine the meeting by putting conditions on Africans, without which Morocco would withdraw from the Summit with its Arab supporters.

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King Mohamed VI delivered, from Dakar- Senegal, this November 6 a speech on the occasion of his father’s invasion of Western Sahara.

The collapse of the Grenadian Revolution on 19 October 1983 [1] should be carefully examined for the lessons that it might offer to organizers in the Caribbean who are currently organizing with the la

[This paper was delivered at the forum on October 12, 2016 specially organized by the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill Barbados under the theme: “Reflections on the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Walter Rodney: What next?”]

“In evaluating Walter Rodney one characteristic stands out. He was a scholar who recognised no distinction between academic concerns and service to society, between science and social commitment. He was concerned about people as well as archives, about the workplace as well as the classroom.

Nate Parker has produced a masterpiece, which will evoke the legacy of one of the greatest African slave rebellions in the history of the United States.