Pambazuka News opposes war and militarization and its attendant consequences on human dignity and livelihoods. We call for self-organized movements of peace.

As we are experiencing a world order in disorder, with war conflagrations and shifting balance of power, Issa Shivji calls for a Sovereign Pan-African Project. The analyses recap the fundamental and nonnegotiable characteristics of Pan-Africanism that should anchor the question of Africa’s position in the emerging multipolar world with competing regional hegemonies.   

Dek: The final of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup was played on July 19, 2026, but the lessons of the tournament for nations, national teams, footballers, supporters and the entire football world remain with us. The game goes on and football remains a collective enterprise never divorced from the societies in which it is played or the stories surrounding the nations on the pitch. Engwenyu’s analysis highlights the dynamics as they unfolded in the 2026 Men’s Football World Cup.

 In this second part of a two part policy note, Yassine Fall further examines the practicality of debt restructuring, structural adjustment policies, and Senegal’s relations with the IMF. The analysis proposes a collective front for debt justice and challenges Senegal to be guided by the sovereign mandate that delivered the electoral victory of 2024.

The sensation of Amapiano is felt, and the pulse underneath carries something wider as it travels across Africa. Still, both the music and the continent are routinely reduced to party soundtrack or permanent crisis. These surface readings reinforce each other, turning cross-border rhythms into an anomaly instead of evidence. What becomes visible when we refuse them?

As foreign powers compete for influence in Somalia, its government has found a quieter form of control: hiring its sharpest journalists into state jobs, turning critics into loyal spokespeople.

The resistance of Kenyans against British imperialism and political actors doing little to alleviate the sufferings of working peoples of Kenya, manifested respectively through Mau Mau and Ruto-must-go. Mutunga reviews an edited book that documents these struggles. 

From a South African clinic to a Nairobi embassy queue, this essay traces how nation, region and race make Africans foreign to one another and asks what Pan-Africanism owes the stranger.

In a thoughtful piece on the distinction between the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the ‘frontier’ model of AI championed by the United States, the Activists News Network urges all Internationalists not to reject AI wholesale but to actively engage alternative forms of its development. Technology and science have seldom had inherent harmful or useful value, rather it is the terms of ownership and development that have made them tools against working peoples’ interests. 

Ubuntu’s origins must not be conflated with its theorisation and deployment as anti-imperial resistance. Its obligations concerning personhood and collective life already carry political meaning. Colonial domination intensified their expression through survival and resistance. In this poem, Pheko invites the audience to consider the demands of ubuntu, what ubuntu is and what it is not.