Philip Ochieng, the Kenyan journalist who made his mark across East Africa.
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In the final years of his life – and with his poor health beginning to slow him down – Ochieng persisted in his love for teaching.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is considered the bedrock of the country’s democratic order. Here it is in session in 2019.
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The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
Artificial identities created by colonialists must be deconstructed to attain unity.
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Nigerians, as well as other Africans, need to actively work to decolonise social arrangements created by the British.
A Xolobeni villager protesting against mine development.
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Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
Nelson Mandela and his successor Thabo Mbeki presided over the halcyon days of South Africa’s new democracy.
South Africa, following its peaceful transition, occupied the moral high ground and could influence the agenda of intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations. Not anymore.