Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...
November 11, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, ending more than five centuries of Portuguese ...
WHEN I entered the University of Guyana as a freshman in the history programme, one of the books sweeping the world and the UG campus was E. F. Schumacher’s ...
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Shamelessness as virtue

Last Monday, we all woke up to the not-so-shocking news of Paul Biya’s eighth-term victory at age 92. I chuckled because this ...
Anne Applebaum's recent article, "Kleptocracy, Inc.," argues that the US is undergoing a revolutionary shift towards the corrupt practices of autocratic regimes, with President Trump's administration ...
Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during ...
When Cameroon rsquo;s founding president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, stepped down in November 1982, he left behind one of Central Africa rsquo;s most promising economies .
A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they have attacked convoys supplying ...
THE HOLLOWNESS OF THE NATIONAL PARTY FOREIGN POLICY AND THE HOLLOW MAN THAT PURSUED IT - PIK BOTHA, AN ASSESSMENT “No man is a hero to his valet” Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel \{ ...
For one thing, he was a ruthless military general who had no qualms about resorting to violence to maintain order and stability throughout his 32-year rule in this country.
The NFL suspended Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch for one game after he punched Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster to spark a brawl at the end of the Chiefs vs. Lions "Sunday Night ...