Politics

At a time when African founding narratives struggle to be heard amid the tumult of global history, the Mande Charter (proclaimed in the 13th...

On the night of July 7, 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was gunned down in his residence in Pétion-Ville. The operation was swift, silent,...

Since January 2025, M23 rebels have recaptured Goma and Bukavu with direct support from the Rwandan army. A confidential UN report reveals the scale...

Modibo Keïta, first president of independent Mali, was far more than a head of state: a trained teacher, committed socialist, and uncompromising pan-Africanist, he...

Signed in Washington under the aegis of Donald Trump, the agreement between Kigali and Kinshasa for peace in eastern DRC reflects less a diplomatic...

Reduced to a statue in official memory, Antonio Maceo was nonetheless one of the Spanish Empire’s most feared strategists. The son of a freed...

As African independences are being commemorated, one name remains strangely absent from official narratives: that of the Cameroon War. Between 1955 and 1971, a...

Jean-Claude Duvalier, heir to a throne built on fear, did not govern—he prolonged the shadow. From his teenage rise to power to his gilded...

In May 1967 (Mé 67), Guadeloupe erupted in a blaze of social and racial anger. Three days of fire, blood, and silence—still denied by...