The problem with being first is that it can make movement look like progress. The Gambia has become the first African Union member state to ratify the African Union Convention on Ending…
I knew what the play was going to be about as soon as the first act opened, and two girls ran into the audience, describing an evil that had occurred. They said,…
The first time I understood that the development sector does not believe what it says about grassroots knowledge, I was in a room in Harare watching a consultant present a financial sustainability…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will unfold amid intensifying U.S. militarism, imperial consolidation, and border securitisation. Rather than standing outside these realities, the tournament risks functioning as spectacle for empire — projecting…
There is something deeply important happening across Africa today. The return of the language of Sovereignty. After decades of externally prescribed development models, unequal trade arrangements, military dependencies, and cultural domination, Africans…
Find Portuguese version below/ Veja a versão em português abaixo “Gudineey imaadan goyseen haddii uusan gabalkey kugu jirin.” – Maahmaah (Somali Proverb) The axe could not fell the tree if…
African women’s exhaustion under the weight of care responsibilities has long been labelled as resilience. Across many communities, the ability to “hold things together” is treated less as evidence of systemic strain…
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights – a binding treaty between the member states of the African Union which guarantees individual and collective rights – was born from a radical…
When Uganda passed the Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023, activists warned that the law would be used to marginalise a disadvantaged community further. In the months that followed, Ugandan officials claimed first…
How we enter, relate, build trust, and move resources within contemporary philanthropic structures is not abstract; it is deeply material. This is about power, proximity, and integrity, especially for African feminists who…