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A Not So New Meaning to Being White and (South) African in Africa and the World
USA president Donald Trump recently issued an executive order about South African domestic politics. In it he was basically protecting white South Africans and in particular those of Afrikaner (Dutch) origin. This was after one of his infamous and closest political advisors, Elon Musk had warned via his social media platform X, that there would be… →
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The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)
As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more… →
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Emerging Global Complexities for the Next African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson
On 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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Africa and the Potential of a World War 3
A young Zimbabwean cde asked me about the meaning of ‘global war’. His question was coming from a context of the general narrative of a globalilsed world war between Russia, Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). And of course the celebrity narrative or even movie like narrative that comes with pitting Biden, Putin and now… →
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