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United Arab Emirates : Not all empires look the same
Cheriese Dilrajh 23/06/26
Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. Empire has never been only a matter of colonial occupation. The United States and (…)
Mali : Anticolonialism in the age of fragmentation
Djiguikôrô 04/06/26
The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse : how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism. Bamako seems to have returned to its own rhythm. Schools have reopened (…)
Western Sahara : Whose right to exist ?
William Shoki 13/04/26
Last week, Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop announced that his country would no longer recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, throwing Bamako’s weight, instead, behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara. The decision is (…)
Senegal’s theater of morality
Rama Salla Dieng 24/03/26
As debt mounts and police violence on campuses goes unanswered, Senegal’s government is targeting its queer citizens. Let us be precise about what happened on March 11, 2026. Senegal’s National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison (…)
Iran : What is there left to say ?
William Shoki 03/03/26
In Minab, a small city in southern Iran, 170 children arrived at school on an ordinary morning. By the time the dust settled, at least 148 of them were dead. The missiles that killed them were American. The intelligence that selected the target (…)
Ne parlez pas de rébellion de la génération Z
William Shoki 17/10/25
Sur tous les continents, une figure familière est revenue dans les rues. Au Népal, de jeunes manifestant·es ont renversé le gouvernement après des années de corruption et de stagnation. Au Maroc, le collectif sans leader « Gen Z 212 » a rempli (…)
Nepal’s new reality
Feyzi Ismail, Fraser Sugden 23/09/25
The protests in Nepal this week were unprecedented. In just 48 hours, a disparate movement of largely young people throughout major towns and cities brought down the entire political establishment that had dominated Nepalese politics since the (…)
Gen Z and the spirit of Mau Mau
Muoki Mbunga 29/07/25
Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education. On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Kenya witnessed the largest (…)
Cómo las elites y las celebridades capturaron el panafricanismo
Naila Aroni 10/06/25
Nacido a inicios del siglo XX con figuras como W.E.B. Du Bois y Marcus Garvey, el panafricanismo buscó unir a África contra el colonialismo. Hoy, las élites políticas y económicas, pero también las celebridades de la diáspora, usan su simbología (…)
Pan Africanism under elite capture
Naila Aroni 10/06/25
Recent celebrity investments in the continent raises the question : Who is it really for ? In The Wretched of the Earth, anticolonial theorist Frantz Fanon warned that Africa’s postcolonial bourgeoisie would co-opt the symbols of Black (…)