History
Beyond ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ How Frantz Fanon Influenced African Anti-colonial Movements
Frantz Fanon’s influence on the many anti-colonial struggles across Africa, as well as his contributions toward the Algerian fight for liberation cannot continue to be ignored or downplayed. Read more. Read More...
Lessons of Discord The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism
Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more. Read More...
What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa
Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more. Read More...
The Revolution Is a Song! Music in Africa’s Liberation and Freedom Struggles
In their contributions to local African resistance, musicians today such as Uganda’s Bobi Wine, who face increasingly autocratic governments, draw from the legacies of older artists such as Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba. Read more. Read More...
Who Is Shade Thomas-Fahm?
Folashade Thomas-Fahm is reputed for being the first professionally-trained fashion designer in Nigeria. Read more. Read More...
From Well-Worn Fatigues to Well-Tailored Suits Joseph Garba’s ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’
In ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’, the late General Joseph Garba, one of Nigeria’s earliest foreign ministers, presents a case for the tacit but present ‘Big Brother’ role that Nigeria has sought to play across Africa. Read more. Read More...
Genesis of a Revolutionary Robert Mugabe’s Political Formation
Robert Mugabe, the dictator who ruled Zimbabwe for more than three decades, had revolutionary beginnings. He was shaped by a tumultuous brew of pan-African nationalism, associated authoritarianism, and his own startling yet grossly under-discussed political rise. Read more. Read More...
The Inevitable Revolutionary How Thomas Sankara Weaponized Coloniality
Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara, as a close reading of Frantz Fanon’s decolonization theories suggests, was an inevitable revolutionary. Sankara evidenced and ultimately turned the contradictions of the colonial system against itself. Read more. Read More...
Who Was Ojukwu? The Many Perceptions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Before he died in 2011, leader of the Biafran secessionist movement, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, had assumed four personalities: he was a hero, a villain, a rebel, and even a ‘one-Nigerianist’. Read more. Read More...
Gender, Anti-Colonialism and Nationalism The Anti-Colonial Legacies of African Women
That women’s participation in anti-colonial and nationalist struggles may not be as obvious in existing literature does not mean such participation was peripheral. Read more. Read More...
