Photo courtesy of FT The Galle Literary Festival took place in the heart of Galle’s fort, inviting diverse voices in poetry ...

Washington’s focus on development assistance and democracy promotion has failed. Relationships based on commercial engagement ...

Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only ...

Africa’s prospects for this year are dim, owing to the resurgence of warlordism and the continued weakness of regional ...

For countries trying to flee the haunting shadows of a Western world-imposed unipolar hegemony, 2024 marked a new dawn for ...

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism. But even the ...

A political clash is brewing in South Africa following Donald Trump’s sanctions on the country over its land reform policies.

Columnist David Marcus writes that only American bureaucrats seem to be outraged over President Trump's war on the United States Agency for International Development. That's a big tell that it isn't ...

Malcolm X (Malik Shabazz) was grounded in African American folklore. He was fond of animal metaphors. His most famous analogy was the fox and wolf. Malik saw the fox as ...

The formation of The Hague Group marks a turning point in the global struggle to hold Israel accountable for its crimes in ...

Hardly anyone outside central Africa knows who M23 are or why they ... it is unsurprising when other leaders conclude that imperialism is back in fashion. Other Western governments are torn.