Pan-Africanism

On 1-2 July 2018, the 31st ordinary summit of the African Union (AU) was held in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott under the theme of “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation. [[i]]”

Leading personalities will include the veteran pan-Africanists, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and Cosmas Musamali of the Zambian Socialist Party, Professor Akilagpa Sawyer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, youth and student movements, representatives from Tri-continental and leading tr

As with so many left-wing personalities, Ottilie’s political consciousness started in high school with a reading group, an issue that can never be emphasised enough for a new generation.

The festival starts for us at the Airport named after him; Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His memory is a presence in this country. It crushes out of his name and observes from the shadows. My friend Gacheke and I arrive in the company of his greatness.

The captured men could have been specimen of some hibernating genus to be quickened into brutal medieval “new-world” life in a culturing of slaps, kicks, branding with hot iron like cattle, lashes from horsewhips; slave auctions and unpaid back-breaking donkey’s labour in inclement weather f

On 4 June 2013, in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, South-Western Nigeria, I was on mission to meet with one of Africa’s master strategists and development pioneer, admired by many and considered a “rebel technocrat,” by a few.

For over four decades, Adedeji was indisputably the leading proponent of regional integration in Africa. He was widely regarded as the intellectual father of African integration, just as Raul Prebisch was of Latin American integration and Jean Monnet the European integration.

Julius Malema, now leader of the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) of South Africa and Member of Parliament, is a former president of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.

In the 2014-2016 Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances that led to his death, evidence was produced that showed that the device that exploded in his lap, and which was constructed by Guyana Defence Force army sergeant Gregory Smith, was remotely controlled from a range of frequen

From its founding, the MISR MPhil/PhD programme arcades itself as a method to decolonisation in three significant ways: seeing the world from African vantage points; ending the pervasive consultancy culture; And asking context-specific home-grown questions.