An Iroko fell on October 10 2026, aged 101, yet the experience of a village teacher, the resolve of an anticolonial organiser, cultural activist, political activist, and avid writer in the unfinished struggle over Guyana’s and Global African future remains. Rest with the Ancestors, Eusi Kwayana – Pambazuka will continue to highlight your life and contributions.

After having trailed in the opening round, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently secured the Presidency in Brazil’s 2026 elections. Through an interview with Owen MacDonald, Pambazuka seeks to convey not only how the people of Brazil mobilized to secure this victory, but what the victory means for Global Africans and the defeat of imperialism. 

In continuing reflections on the 25th anniversary of the Durban Declaration against racism and discrimination, Nketsiah asks how we should update the declaration in our fight against systemic racism to reflect the technological stage the world has reached. Increasingly faced with algorithms and Artificial Intelligence embedded in governance and control mechanisms, racism and discrimination must be confronted at the technological scale.

As debate rages on whether the ‘Visit Rwanda’ brand is smart marketing for tourism or state sportswashing against destructive acts, Aston Villa has signed a multi-million-dollar agreement with Visit Rwanda, and Formula 1 just announced its return to Africa through its deal with Rwanda. In the context of Kigali’s internal repression and its direct role in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern conflict, Madondo outlines what sportswashing is and how Visit Rwanda’s campaigns exemplify the phenomenon.

Changes always come, and so might the desires for transformation shaping the struggles of Indigenous Peoples in North America. Butcher provides poetic reflections on Native and other peoples struggling for justice, which shall emerge clothed in new wings of possibility, ready to fly. 

With increasing military confrontations and changing internal and external alliances, Ethiopia faces a deepening crisis involving multiple actors. Drawing lessons from Eritrea’s liberation struggle and reflecting on the new alliance of armed movements against the regime in Addis Ababa, Woldemariam argues that military victories by federal forces do not necessarily reflect the political allegiance and popular legitimacy necessary for long term territorial control.

Public debts continue to entrap many countries in Africa without corresponding interventions and investment that changes the material conditions of the people whose sweat, endurance and sacrifice are required to pay these debts. Cheburet examines the trend in Kenya and its attendant economic injustices. 

Parameswaran questions dominant narratives about Africa’s migration to Europe using the recent migrant crossing into Ceuta and reflects on insights from the road to London Heathrow Airport. 

The political economy of football reproduces the exploitative structures through which capital and race intermingle in the extraction of surplus labour, wealth accumulation and appropriation from Africa. Reflecting on the most recent world cup in relation to the contribution of African labor to the football industry, Shaibu explores Africa’s position in global sports.