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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

Moroccan forces destroy a camp near Western Sahara’s capital in 2019. Photo: File

The last colony: Western Sahara and Africa’s unfinished liberation

A referendum must take place allowing the people of Western Sahara to decide their future freely, to uphold African solidarity, justice, self-determination and dignity

Perhaps China’s motivation for mobilising BRICS countries behind its efforts to influence the outcomes of the Ukraine war is for financial gain.

China is mobilising the Global South, but is it for peace in Ukraine?

Beijing is well aware that it cannot solve the problem on its own

The future of the African Union: How many more days are left?

Founded on the principles of pan-Africanism 22 years ago, the AU has had its successes, but facing mounting issues of foreign funding, an inability to act on conflicts among…

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor at the Africa Day celebrations.

Africa Day 2024 celebrated 

Africans have a key role to play in shaping the character of the world

AFP PHOTO / EBRAHIM HAMID (Photo credit should read EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)

OPINION | Thabo Mbkei reflects on the African Union, Africa Day and his foundation

Thabo Mbkei reflects on the African Union, Africa Day and his foundation

Celebrations: The Brother Moves On (above) and the Windybrow’s choir will be performing at the Africa Month festival. (Tseliso Monaheng)

Africa, is your time now?

The Windybrow Arts Centre in Joburg has a variety of performances for Africa Month

Demonstrators gather in Ouagadougou to show support to the military while holding and waiving a Russian flag and an anti France banner on January 25, 2022. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)

Burkina Faso’s most recent coup proves the African Union is a toothless bulldog

Many among the deposed African heads of state held major positions in the AU at the peak of their atrocities back home

Palestinian supporters wave flags as they take part in a counter demonstration outside the venue where Israel supporters gather in an event organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

The AU Commission chairperson’s decision to accept the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia undermines the anti-colonial values that underpin the AU

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) meets the head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdelrahman. (Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

The AU’s role in brokering Sudan deal offers lessons for the future

The African Union’s role in Sudan’s political crisis proves that it’s legal framework is strong enough to resolve regional disputes

Fela Kuti.
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Fela in Versace: how popular culture is driving 21st century pan-Africanism

When the AU is making promising strides in realising African integration through the adoption of pop culture, what lessons should be taken from them?

In June Ethiopia claims to have killed more than 110 rebels allegedly sent by Eritrea to destabilise the country

Ethiopia and Eritrea: Decades of dispute over a border

There are fears the feuding neighbours may be using Somalia as a proxy battleground

An art exhibition that curates complex identities

An exhibit of African identity featuring continental and diasporic artists such as Lerato Shadi, Felix Mula and Louis Kakudi.

President Jacob Zuma.

Africans must reject ideas of regime change, says Zuma

President Jacob Zuma says ideas to replace Africa’s democratically elected governments from outside the continent must be rejected.

And now Africa rises, to unite in prosperity

Kwame Nkrumah envisioned an Africa united by necessity and if anything can get the continent’s nations to work together, it’s the prospect of wealth.

Soldiers serving with the African Union mission in Somalia stand to attention.

AU has neglected human rights

Africa’s leaders should also do some serious reflection on why they haven’t made sufficient progress on human rights, writes Tiseke Kasambala.

How to make the system work

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros made his fortune on the markets and is giving a lot of it to Africa. Last week he hosted an Africa Forum in Dakar on whether the continent…

Mboweni: African monetary union a long way off

Africa is a long way off a common monetary union as the continent continues to struggle to harmonise economic policies, South Africa’s central bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on…