Fidel Castro and Religion (Christianity) According to The Washington Post, the late former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro’s letters from prison suggest that he “was a man of unusual spiritual…
Freedom Can Be Won Only Through Struggle (Extracts from Thomas Sankara’s speech to the Thirty-ninth Session of the UN General Assembly on October 4, 1984). “The truth of the righteous…
TELLING OUR OWN STORIES, OUR HISTORY, OUR HERITAGE Storytelling, especially about our history, has always been at the heart of African culture and life. Through song, art, poetry, dance and…
Thami Mnyele Coldheartedly Murdered: 40 Years On On 14 June 1985, Thami Mnyele was shot dead by apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF) soldiers outside his home in Gaborone. He…
African Armed Forces and Social Transformation The military is one of the most firmly established institutions within the post-colonial African state. Moreover, as an icon of independence and sovereignty, it…
Albert Luthuli quotation.
The War Continues – 1977 Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, guerrilla leader and trade unionist, who founded and led the…
Fascism in the 21st Century “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”– Benito Mussolini – “That, in its essence, is…
Athol Fugard: The Writer Under Apartheid (Extracts from Kader Asmal’s Sechaba Article) “Without white South Africa realizing what it has done – and on the basis of that realization having…
Charlie Parker Dies at a Very Young Age 70 years ago, 12 March 1955, was the sad passing day of Jazz Virtuoso Charles Parker Jr., born on 29 August 1920,…