The threat of intraethnic strife in Ethiopia
When news broke of an alleged attempt to remove the security detail of Oromo activist and media mogul Jawar Mohammed,…
Political and Social Commentary
UN study narrows down why Africans make fraught journey to Europe
Migrants take dangerous routes from Africa to Europe not because they need protection or jobs but because their countries do not meet their…
West Africa’s cocoa farmers are trapped by the global chocolate industry
The chocolate industry is worth more than $80 billion a year. But some cocoa farmers in parts of West Africa are poorer…
A pan-African perspective on Rwanda through a critical review of Judy Rever, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Canada, Random House, 2018
The author argues that the Rwanda-Burundi’s dark colonisation past helps us understand the deep-rooted causes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A common narrative…
No Minister Cele: SA not only country in Africa giving out crime stats
While releasing South Africa’s annual crime statistics, police minister Bheki Cele said that his department had “dropped the ball” when…
What is really behind the crisis in Haiti?
For months now, Haiti has been shaken by intensifying protests. A deepening economic crisis and growing fuel and food shortages have sent…