Analysis - Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

In that trilogy, intelligence services operate as if they were still in, or nostalgic of, the age of the British Empire, shaped by a sense of loyalty (sometimes morally conflicted, as in the case ...

The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

H.E. Amani Abou-Zeid, Egyptian, was elected the new Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission. H.E. Abou-Zeid was an international development lead expert who has been ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

Nigeria's history dates back long before the colonial era, with some of its most significant kingdoms emerging as early as ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

This is the rate at which central banks lend or discount eligible paper for deposit money banks, typically shown on an end-of-period basis. The South African Reserve Bank cut its key interest rate ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic — United Nations peacekeeping forces and Russian mercenaries are carrying out human rights violations in the Central African Republic, an independent investigator says ...

What was the Berlin Conference about? In November 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took up the task of calling for and hosting the conference in Berlin at the Reich Chancellery, his official ...

On the murder of Ruth First and others killed by the South African death squads ... 5 Speeches at the funeral, reactions in South Africa and India, Statement by the Central Committee of the SACP, ...