Ethiopia on the Brink: A New War and the Question of Foreign Intervention
Ethiopia stands on the brink of renewed war as fighting returns to Tigray and tensions rise across the Horn of Africa. This op-ed examines foreign intervention, proxy warfare…
Bab el-Mandeb: Africa as a Receptacle for the History of Others
You only have to look at the news coming out of Yemen to understand something deeper about Africa’s…
Why the Youth Forum on Debt and Reparations Matters, and Why the Momentum Cannot Be Allowed to Fade
The Pan-African Progressive Front's Youth Forum brought together over 250 young people from 11 countries to transform reparations…
Why Every African Youth Should Not Miss the Youth Forum on Debt and Reparations
All roads lead to the University of Ghana ISSER Conference Hall on 5th September, as African youth gather…
The Drum Speaks Again: The Return of the Djidji Ayokwe and the Unfinished Work of Repatriation
After more than a century in French hands, the Djidji Ayokwe reached its home village this week. The…
The Making of an Empty Continent
The transatlantic slave trade did not only steal lives. It stripped Africa of generations of people, institutions and…
The Silence They Demand: On Reparations and the Discipline of Forgetting
There is a particular tone reserved for Africans and Caribbeans who speak of reparations. It is the tone…
The Empire Sends an Invoice: The Poverty of British Memory
Suella Braverman says Africa and the Caribbean owe Britain gratitude for empire, not the reverse. Her own government's…
Heroes and Terrorists: Framing the War on the AES in the Western Press
When fighters overran Malian forces, the Western press read it as an achievement, not an atrocity. The vocabulary…