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In black and white: The Nkosi family circa 1942, in a photo taken on the steps of a church in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Morley Nkosi, author of the memoir The Way Home, is seated in the middle.
AFRICAN DIASPORA

Exile in Cairo: Between the Nile and the struggle

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

  • Morley Nkosi
8 min read
Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe after its liberation but became its oppressor. Photo: Archive
AFRICAN LIBERATION

Burkina Faso: Revolution, authoritarianism and the crisis of African emancipation politics

If revolutions are to succeed, the people must deliver freedom. They must reject authoritarianism, a small revolutionary elite or a military junta.

  • Leroy Maisiri
8 min read