Chris Hani (R) after being elected secretary general of the South African Communist Party in December 1991. To his left is the former secretary general Jo Slovo.
Walter Dhladhla/AFP via Getty Images
The book is a gripping read for anyone interested in late 20th century history, and in the end of apartheid.
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
The Burundian flag flies at the head of a convoy of buses moving refugees back home from Tanzania in 2019.
Tchandrou Nitanga/AFP via Getty Images
Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
China’s President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin cement bonds at the Kremlin in March.
Vladimir Astapkovich/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images.
The US’s negative attitude towards BRICS reflects its own weakening global power, especially its inability to isolate Russia in Europe and to contain China’s growing influence.
Dividing land borders in Ghana is a contentious issue.
Wikimedia Commons
Ghana’s regions have no autonomy, yet creating new ones is contentious as it threatens the interests of chiefs and political parties.
The raging conflict in Khartoum could negatively affect trade flows through Port Sudan to the rest of the world.
Getty Images
Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries
Saudi security officers stand guard off the seaport of Port Sudan in April 2023.
Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images
There is a risk that Sudan’s conflict could spill over into neighbouring countries.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Photo by Shaul Schwarz/Getty Images
It’s a near certainty that Kagame will be here for some time to come; but as Rwanda looks to the future, it may need or indeed demand a change of guard.
Counting of votes during the 2023 presidential elections at a polling station in Lagos.
Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty Images
Electoral violence, low voter turnout, ethnic politics and voters’ suppression were notable features of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
Uranium processing plant in Utah, US.
RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Libya’s lost but found yellowcake poses no significant security risk but highlights the need for African countries to get their acts together in the area of nuclear safety and security governance.
The opening of a hydro-electric dam on the Nile River at Merowe, north of Khartoum, in 2009.
Ashraf Shazly/Afp via GettyImages
The Sudanese crisis is the culmination of three decades of contentious energy politics among rival elites.
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, in Paris, in 2021.
Gao Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images
Expulsion of the German ambassador could be a way of warning other embassies, especially France, to steer clear of Chadian politics and support for the opposition.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressing a rally in Bulawayo recently.
Zinyange Auntony/AFP via Getty Images
Zanu-PF’s anti-American rhetoric is not only deployed to win friends abroad. As elections approach, it is also a prominent campaign tactic at home.
Kagame prefers partnership with successful European football clubs to market Rwanda.
Luke Dray/FIFA via Getty Images
With Africa’s solid support and his pro-west military and policy adventures, Kagame is able to take on critics.
An armed soldier at a polling station during the counting of votes in March 2018 in Freetown.
Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images
Though public opinion surveys offer some hope, there are several concerns for democracy’s consolidation in West Africa.
Paul Mashatile, the deputy president of South Africa.
Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images
Mashatile could be the new broom that sweeps clean. Ramaphosa’s apparent confidence in him suggests that he has some latitude to do so.
Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Vladimir Putin at the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, in 2019.
Photos: GCIS
The government must not trample on its own laws and court decisions. Compliance with the constitution must be the priority.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and then U.S Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands in Beijing on December 4, 2013.
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
There are fears that escalating US-Chinese tensions could threaten the independence of African and other nonaligned nations.
President of Tunisia, Kais Saied (R) meets Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in Tunis on 8 March 2023.
Tunisian Presidency / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
In Tunisia, scapegoating migrants diverts from the continuous failure of government to solve deep economic and social crisis.
President Carter’s interest in southern Africa was crucial to keeping the peace.
Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy