The African Union, a turning point?
NOVANEWS Daily Maverick Vijay Makhan The eyes of Africa are this week turned to Kigali, host of the African Union Summit, where a new Chairperson of the AU Commission will be elected. The Summit presents […]
Category: Africa
Brexit: A nail in the coffin of neo-colonialism in Africa
NOVANEWS Netfa Freeman Believing that Brexit could represent the beginning of the end for international cooperation is to believe that the world does or should revolve around Europe. The late Pan-Africanist Kwame Ture (aka Stokely […]
How the UN and Canada colluded to kill Lumumba
PAPPhotoshot Yves Engler The United Nations, then under Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, and Canada played key roles in the assassination of popular Congolese Prime Minister and eminent African statesman Patrice Lumumba. To Prime Minister John […]
Naziyahu denies reports of assassination attempt in Kenya
NOVANEWS By Ian Greenhalgh Netanyahu has certainly made plenty of enemies over the years so an assassination plot would not come as a surprise. Although we have not been able to verify if there was […]
The President of Uganda Kept Calling I$raHell ‘Palestine’ During Netanyahu’s Visit
NOVANEWS BY SIOBHÁN O’GRADY In July 1976, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother Yonatan flew some 2,300 miles from Israel to Entebbe, Uganda, where pro-Palestinian hijackers were holding more than 100 people hostage in an […]
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising
NOVANEWS Motsoko Pheko The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu Education. The […]
Watch: Ogaden – Ethiopia’s Hidden Shame
NOVANEWS Graham Peebles writes: Ethiopia is regularly cited by donor nations as an African success story. Its economy is growing, they cry, more children are attending school and health care is improving. Well, GDP figures […]
From Ethiopian solidarity to Palestinian solidarity: Petitioning for an international volunteer army
NOVANEWS indiatoday Mathew Quest In the 1930s, there was a global Pan African movement for a volunteer army that petitioned Haile Selassie to fight Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy in occupied Ethiopia. What can this historical […]
It’s the Revolution that matters: Remembering Che
NOVANEWS salmanshaheen.com Issa Shivji Che, the revolutionary thinker and organizer whosebirthday falls on June 14, has left us two major elements of his legacy. One: Revolution is everything and we as individuals, in isolation, are […]
36 years on: Why Walter Rodney was assassinated
NOVANEWS He did not fit into racial/ethnic politics of his day Pambazuka Wazir Mohammed The renowned radical scholar-activist was murdered 36 years ago because he did not fit into the old political mold, where leaders […]