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Common purpose: Africa Day should reflect the achievement of Agenda 2063’s aims to deliver inclusive and sustainable development to drive the pan-African dream of unity. Photo: AU

Have African leaders betrayed  the dream of 1963?

Africa Day is generally marked as a day for celebration, a day to rejoice at the steps taken by previous generations to fight against and eliminate the effects of colonialism,…

Pan-Africanism: Africa should evolve towards genuine unity and structural freedom or it resigns itself to
managing an elegant fragility while external powers continue to choreograph its destiny.

Africa and our hollow unity

Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi

Celebration: On Thursday, Ramaphosa received a loud cheer in Boitekong, Rustenburg as he arrived  for the regional cake cutting for the anniversary. (Lunga Mzangwe/M&G)

Ramaphosa: No political party has done more good for South Africans than the ANC

The ANC president said this was a fact, whether people liked it or not

Students protest against apartheid in 1976.  (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Lessons from South Africa’s past for a future of collective empowerment

Education’s role in fostering critical consciousness and political engagement has been side-lined in favour of a narrow focus on individual success and economic competitiveness

Former public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan.

Pravin Gordhan set the benchmark for public service and dedication to the cause

Not everyone liked the late former public enterprises minister, but everyone respected him

Pravin Gordhan.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Pravin Gordhan, former public enterprises minister and lifelong political activist, dies

Gordhan passed away after what his family said was a short battle with cancer

History-rich sites such as Oliver Tambo House (above) and Kavalamanja not only deserve to be declared as shared national monuments but also World Heritage Sites. (Joseph Kalimbwe/X)

Zambia the cradle of liberation of Southern Africa

The country’s historical sites encapsulate the struggles and triumphs of the people of the subcontinent

Late former president Nelson Mandela. Photo: Alexander Joe/AFP

Top 10 Mandela must-reads

Nelson Mandela’s ideals about forgiveness and a diverse and united South Africa remain in the hearts of many people

Epitome of ethics: Author and cultural critic bell hooks insisted that care, love and spirituality were the core of black feminist practice and freedom. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images

A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis

bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda

Culture of struggle: Diturupa troupes in Makapanstad celebrate the role of black soldiers in the first and second world wars. (Photos: Lucas Styles Ledwaba)

Review: ‘Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa’: On the arts as a catalyst in the quest for true freedom

This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness

Black Thoughts: Writer and activist Achmat Dangor never shied from his personal odyssey of exploring uncertain terrain. (Paul Botes)

Achmat Dangor: On writing and change

Celebrated author and political activist Achmat Dangor died on Sunday at the age of 71. Here, in a 1990 interview published in Staffrider, he speaks to Andries Walter Oliphant…

Sunny Ade’s Festac ’77 constitutes one of the many albums celebrating the festival

Reproducing Festac ’77: A secret among a family of millions

An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project

The fate of all African countries is bound together. We prosper or suffer sustained underdevelopment together. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)

Tawana Kupe: It takes a continent to raise the Africa we want

Collaborating with other universities will assist in dealing with diseases and other social issues that know no borders