This year marks the centenary of Amílcar Cabral’s birth in 1924. António Tomás writes this month’s newsletter on the visionary leader in the fight for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, Cabral’s legacy endures.
Decades of embracing neoliberal electricity policies have left Africa, one of the world’s most resource rich regions, with the lowest energy consumption rates per capita.
In 1973, workers in the industrial port city of Durban embarked on a series of strikes, marking an end to a period of relative quiescence that came on the heels of tremendous state repression.