It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...

There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

The fall of the Assad regime last December, after fifty-five years of hereditary dictatorial rule, was as momentous and ...

The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was a decisive moment in South Africa’s transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.

South Africa opened its G20 presidency with an ambitious message for a world divided by conflict and economic strain: ...

Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That's until the day armed men descended on ...

This statement is by the United Left Platform. This is an initiative of a group of revolutionary and independent socialist organizations to actively seek opportunities for joint work, given the ...

Recent statements by President Donald Trump and top administration officials disparaging Minnesota’s large Somali community have focused renewed attention on the ...

Govan Mbeki spent more than two decades in prison for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As a leader of South Africa ...