South Africa

President Magufuli

Africa: Covid-19 Vaccine Imperialism And Other Challenges

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli. Covid? What covid? Photo: Facebook  Covid-19 Hegemony: African countries are not looking to their home-grown manufacturing capacity and solutions ...

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford

South Africa Suspends use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine

Photo: YouTube Another COVID-19 vaccine has run into trouble in South Africa, showing less protection there than elsewhere because a SARS-CoV-2 variant that can ...

Bobi Wine

Uganda: Let’s Boycott MAMA Awards — We Need a “Free Bobi Wine and Uganda” concert

Bobi Wine. Gen. Museveni is trying to deprive him of victory. Photo: Facebook.  When it was announced that the forthcoming MTV MAMA awards would ...

Musk

Imperialism, Lithium, and Bolivia– “We’ll Coup Whoever We Want”

Elon Musk–sovereignty? What sovereignty when we need resources? Photo: JD Lasika/Wikimedia Commons At the end of 2019, there was a military coup in Bolivia, ...

In coming president

How Joe Biden Can Help Launch A Pro-Africa U.S. Foreign Policy

Incoming President Biden. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.   To Incoming-President Biden, I am a lifelong Pan-African activist who believes that change is possible and has ...

Malema wants a borderless Africa

“We Want Africa To Unite And Africa To Reclaim Its Land And Resources”–Julius Malema Oxford Union Speech

Julius Malema. Photo: Wikimedia [From The Archives] Below is the transcript of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Front party’s president Julius Malema’s 2016 Oxford Union ...

South African prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Ace Magashule

South Africa issues arrest warrant for ANC’s Ace Magashule

[Ace Magashule] The Guardian: “South African prosecutors issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Ace Magashule, one of the most powerful politicians in the ...

Empowered farmers

The Struggle For Land and Justice: Will South Africa Continue “Soft-Soft” or Adopt The Zimbabwe Approach?

Empowered smallholder farmers in Gwanda rural district in drought prone southern part of Zimbabwe. They use solar powered irrigation to plant throughout the year. ...

Producing classics since his early twenties

Expecting Europe To Help Develop Africa Is Like Asking for A Thief to Fight Thievery—-Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Prof. Ngugi wa Thiongo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons   During the last day of the annual “Congo Week” events focused on empowering Congolese and other ...

They’ll take a person whose a victim of the crime, and make it appear he’s the criminal,

Why Moderation In Defense of Liberty Is No Virtue—Malcolm X

Malcolm X. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Herman Hiller [From The Archives] The following essay is excerpted from Malcolm X’s presentation at the Oxford Union Debate on ...