Muhammad Ali: A man of the times!
NOVANEWS NYT Omowale Kefing When Cassius Clay stood up in Miami, Florida, and said my name is Muhammad Ali, he was in fact the greatest boxer and African patriot. When he stood up in front […]
A tribute to the greatest: Muhammad Ali
NOVANEWS H/T projectbly Cameron Duodu Muhammad said he was pleased to come to Ghana – from an America where black people had to struggle for their ordinary human rights – to find back people running […]
Indeed, we are all Biafrans
NOVANEWS Haggai Institute Godwin Onyeacholem It is difficult to fault Chido Onumah’s contention in his new book. It’s no longer news that in Nigeria there is deep and widespread frustration with the conduct of federalism […]
What Adu Boahen has bequeathed to Ghana
NOVANEWS Ghana Times Cameron Duodu Prof Adu Boahen who joined his ancestors ten years ago, left a worthy legacy to all Ghanaians, especially with regard to what must concern them most – living in freedom […]
South Africa: Which way for a new workers’ party?
NOVANEWS IB Times Shaun Whittaker What is required is a non-sectarian political party of the working class that could go beyond unionism to defend the aspirations of the entire social class, not only those few […]
The global labour rights movement you’ve likely never heard of
NOVANEWS Getty Images Chi Adanna Mgbako Since 100 prostitutes in Lyon, France, occupied a church in 1975 to protest police abuse over 40 years ago, sex workers across the globe have been organizing for their […]
Mozambique is suffering a military expression of a political problem
NOVANEWS An interview with historian Michel Cahen for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southern Africa M C Fredson Guilengue The problem in Mozambique is the winner-takes-all politics. If it is possible even to imagine that the […]
Imperialism’s junior partners
NOVANEWS AP Patrick Bond The response to the Brazilian coup shows that the BRICS powers are not a real alternative to US imperialism. On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), […]
Eulogy for Pan-Africanism: Long live Man-Africanism
NOVANEWS Nanjala Nyabola Pan-Africanism as it once was dreamed is dead. In its place—instead of a transnational framework of solidarity deployed to give heart and direction to Africans during the independence and self-determination struggles—we have […]
India or China: Has Nepal A Realistic Choice?
NOVANEWS By Barbara Nimri Aziz CounterPunch I was crossing the airstrip to a small aircraft that would take me to Nepal’s interior. We had left the disarray of the departure hall in Kathmandu airport […]