Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building ...

Zimbabwe’s cultural industry is confronting a deeper question than patronage: can art remain culturally independent when financially vulnerable creators receive cars, cash and other rewards from ...

Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, the Nigerian film producer and renowned actor, whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away at 84. He belonged to that group of elders representing the best of ...

Pan-African liberation once framed gender equality as foundational, yet modern policy has reduced it to a routine ...

Algorithms are now the unseen architects of African elections. As foreign platforms engineer civic realities through opaque feeds, the true democratic threat isn't just misinformation—it is the ...

Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing victory claims and allegations of electoral interference. The emerging ...

We are living through a profound contradiction in how our state treats its young. In the speeches, they are our “youth dividend,” the hustler generation whose energy will build the nation. In the ...

The third global wave of autocratization One playbook, two instruments: Legal façades and structural decay in the world, with Indonesia and Kenya as case studies The modern autocrat doesn’t need a ...

The economic and social conditions in which anti-migrant sentiment has exploded in South Africa include high joblessness and a collapse of government services. The question is not whether these ...

Historical famines under British rule were never accidental; they were engineered via systematic extraction. Today, that colonial machinery thrives in Kenya. Replacing land theft with sovereign debt, ...

As the Pentagon opens its massive UAP archive to billions of views, a deeper crisis looms. The real “ontological shock” is not alien technology, but the shattering of public trust. Financial insiders ...

Imported Western aid models are failing across Africa because they ignore existing, durable local systems. While costly, six-month donor programs distribute livestock only for projects to collapse ...