Apart from those very directly involved at the heart of the recent bout of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), nobody will ever know the full story. Wars being what they are, ...

In this review of Adam Hanieh’s recent book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market, Amina Adebisi Odofin draws out its connections to the Niger Delta, Palestine, ...

Few relationships are as fraught with complexity and moral ambiguity as those between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Recently, former US President Joe Biden visited ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s unfortunate encounter with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office during a pre-meeting press conference may cause African leaders to meditate on the meaning ...

Kenya is undergoing a revolutionary transformation that positively impacts the economy and society. Kenya’s mobile penetration has shot to 133.7 per cent, and the internet is at a usage level of 42 ...

Watch a lecture by Kenyan investigative journalist and CEO of African Uncensored, John-Allan Namu, at the 5th ZAM Nelson Mandela lecture, held at the International Theatre in Amsterdam on February ...

Berlin has always been regarded as a world-class metropolis à la the great Austrian moviemaker Fritz Lang but I didn’t know what to expect when I spent a month as a co2libri visiting fellow at Leibniz ...

One thing ordinary white people seem prone to forgetting, is just how deeply they are despised by the elite class of their own societies, a thing that has led to immense historical delusions with many ...

The United Nations declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids to celebrate the contribution of camelids to food security, nutrition, economic growth, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Over ...

Although it is generally accepted that the wheels of justice turn slowly, in Kenya, especially in matters that involve skulduggery, such as political assassinations, the question is whether those ...

The imperative of judicial accountability is inviolable, both as a matter of constitutional compliance and as a matter of good practice and as an antidote against judicial impunity and the anarchy of ...

In 2019, Prof. Bethwell A. Ogot welcomed me at his home. He had just turned 90. We spoke about his role as editor of the encyclopedic UNESCO project that produced the invaluable volumes of the General ...