Politics

On February 9, 1965, Malcolm X, an iconic figure of Black Power, was turned back at the French border. Officially for a “risk of...

For more than thirty years, Mobutu Sese Seko transformed the Congo into a person-state, a blend of authoritarianism, personality cult, and clientelism. From Zairianization...

From the shadow of the Panthers to armed “expropriations,” the Black Liberation Army waged a clandestine war against the American state throughout the 1970s....

A brilliant diplomat and the first secretary-general of the OAU, Diallo Telli was a major figure of pan-Africanism. His meteoric rise collided with the...

A prominent figure of revolutionary Black struggle in the United States, exiled in Cuba for over forty years, Assata Shakur passed away on September...

Senghor and Cheikh Anta Diop: two giants of Senegal, two visions for Africa. Between cultural hybridity and historical rehabilitation, who paved the best path...

Long relegated to the role of a mere observer in global diplomatic arenas, Africa is beginning to raise its voice. As Moscow and Beijing...

Far from the official narrative of a peaceful transition, Nofi delves into the deep genealogy of South African apartheid: its colonial roots, legal machinery,...

In 1905, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza exposed the horrific underpinnings of the French colonial system in the Congo: bloody requisitions, hostage camps, institutionalized violence....