Category: Pan-Africanism
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Emerging Global Complexities for the Next African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson
Click or not: Emerging Global Complexities for the Next African Union (AU) Commission ChairpersonOn Monday 13 January 2025, the former prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga paid a courtesy call on Zimbabwe’s President E.D Mnangagwa in Harare. It turns out he has been on a tour of a number of African states and meeting with their presidents in order to let them know that he is bidding to… …
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SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go Away
Click or not: SADC is Organically Historical. It is Not Going to Go AwayThere are many conversations I have had with many comrades about the importance of what we now know to be the Southern African Development Community (SADC). And most times these conversations have bordered on the dismissively ahistorical. Wherein colleagues view SADC as this anti-democratic organisation in the region that is preventing new/ nascent opposition political parties… …
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A Resurgent Colonialism in Africa
Click or not: A Resurgent Colonialism in AfricaIt was Franz Fanon that wrote on what he referred to as “A Dying Colonialism”. In this collection of essays, Fanon was generally optimistic about the future of Africa and its revolutionary and liberatory ethos. Already in “The Wretched of the Earth” he had also sort of indicated the ambiguity of what liberation meant and… …
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Zimbabwe and Mozambique- An Irreversible Historical Reality
Click or not: Zimbabwe and Mozambique- An Irreversible Historical RealitySo I once boarded a plane as an election observer to Mauritius in 2005 or thereabouts. I was part of a delegation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum. On the flight I met up with a member of the Mozambique parliament. In my naivety I thought he was from the Frelimo ruling party. At that… …