A “thermometer” measures the heat of words before violence erupts. Seemingly benevolent language (“civilization,” “progress”) escalated into atrocity in the Congo under King Leopold II, and language in today’s active conflict reflects the historical pattern.

Pambazuka celebrates the passing of the United Nations General Assembly ResolutionA/80/L.48 on the Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity. Acknowledgement of the most heinous crime committed against Global Africans has been long overdue. 

The Trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans is the Gravest Crime against humanity in history.

Libya offers a blueprint for the reparation struggles.

A criminology on reparations and emerging contestations at a time of global moral and accountability reckoning of the gravest crime against humanity.

Onyekachi Wambu responds to the Leader of UK’s Conservative Party's comment that, rather than abstaining, the UK should have voted against the UN Resolution Condemning Slavery as a Crime Against Humanity.[1]

Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt. 

The following is a human-interest story of my experiences, observations and commentaries during a six-day trip to Cuba, March 6-12th, amid a tightening of the U.S blockade, with the addition of a crippling oil embargo. I traveled from the United States, where I reside, with two comrades, Gary King and Jerry Lucas.

Senegal was declared the winner of AFCON 2025 on the pitch; power structures have determined that the post-tournament winner is Morocco. 

This essay is a critical reflection of the effects and consequences of the International Community’s and African Union’s intervention and presence in Somalia. The IC and AU presence has betrayed the interest of the Somali people. 

Boneza examines the financial underpinnings of wars and myths about a saving empire

The Shah’s Iran (1953-1979) forged strategic oil, military, and nuclear ties with South Africa’s apartheid regime, helping the latter survive international sanctions. This relationship, driven by mutual economic interests, only ended with the 1979 Iranian Revolution, after which the new government supported the anti-apartheid movement.

 Afrikan Liberation Gathering shows that colonialism’s wounds are not of the past; they are wounds of land theft, epistemic violence, and spiritual fracture that demand ancestral paths of collective healing, not forgetting.

Global Africa must oppose military aggression.Global Africans must stand with the Iranians and prepare to navigate the ripple effects of this war on African peoples.

The war on Iran has repercussions for Africa and is linked to conflicts across various parts of the continent.

Davis reiterates the case for Caribbean solidarity with Cuba

Orovunje remembers Jackson’s contribution to the liberation of Global Africans

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In a 2008 speech at The University of the West Indies, Girvan outlined the importance of post-revolution Cuba to the Caribbean and Africa