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Open letter to Thabo Mbeki on the crisis in the DRC

With respect, your recent statements regarding the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carry the tone of pre-hostile rhetoric laced with accusatory language, ethnic…

Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe after its liberation but became its oppressor. Photo: Archive

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.

Olivier Laouchez (Photo supplied)

Bold innovations for this year’s Trace Awards — and beyond

This year, the Trace Awards will feature a range of categories celebrating musical excellence across different regions and genres

African food from the Taste of Africa food tour
(credit: Honest Travel Experience)

Experience Africa in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town

If you had the opportunity to explore South Africa, to really see it, be confused by it, fall in love with the good, bad and the ugly, where would you start? Think of the last…

OPINION | Protect ideas of pan-Africanism

There needs to be a consolidation of the African identity away from the lens of Western civilisation

Africa does not lack ideals; it has proclaimed them often and well. What it now requires is discipline, execution and political courage on a continental scale. The most fitting tribute to the founders will not be remembrance. It will be readiness.

OPINION | Africa Day 2022 comes amid a divided continent

Despite the articulated goals by Africa’s founding fathers such as Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere for the United States of Africa, it seems the ideals of Africa’s unity only…

Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel, widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide, died in a hospital in Mali last weekend.(Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October

In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted

Eritrea President Isaias-Afwerki.(Feisal Omar/Reuters)

Open letter to Eritrea’s president: Let us visit detained activists and journalists

103 of Africa’s most prominent thinkers ask to visit their incarcerated colleagues in Eritrea

Pan-African: Binyavanga Wainaina, one of Kenya’s most acclaimed writers and a founding editor of the Nairobi-based journal Kwani?, was a champion of imaginative writing. He died earlier this week, at the age of 48. (Simon Maina/AFP)

A life spent rewriting Africa

Binyavanga Wainaina was an exceptional writer, activist and human being