Category: Opinion

Francesca Negro, Universidade de Lisboa Paulina Chiziane, the first woman to publish a novel in Mozambique, has become the first African woman to receive the most important award for Portuguese … Read More

John F. Clark, Florida International University It is easy to understand what African rulers see in the mercenary group Wagner. Its fighters can be deployed quickly. It brings sophisticated arms … Read More

Anaïs Angelo, Universität Wien and Catheline Bosibori N, George Mason University Few witnessed the building of the young Kenyan state from within as did Ngina Kenyatta, the widow of Kenya’s … Read More

F. Fiona Moolla, University of the Western Cape How does it come about that a man who dedicated the greater part of his life to a vision of a just … Read More

Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has in some ways become like Animal Farm. Like the pigs in the classic 1945 novel by English writer George … Read More

Doseline Kiguru, University of Bristol and Patrick Ernest Monte, Kabarak University Choral music – patriotic choral music in particular – is a significant genre in Kenya’s political history. Patriotic music … Read More

Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape One repeated theme of the memoir Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom, by Andre de Ruyter, former CEO of South Africa’s … Read More