pan-Africanism

Although modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder, the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force in the struggle for sovereignty and genuine freedom.

When power depends on forgetting, memory becomes a battlefield: a new home for rigorous, movement-facing criticism is opening to connect the fragments, sharpen analysis, and turn reading into collective organised resistance.

In 1966, African liberation movements met in Havana not as diplomats but as organisers and fighters — forging an international strategy that linked armed struggle, labour power, and socialist ideology into a unified anti-imperialist front.

Fifty years after Morocco’s invasion, Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony. This anniversary exposes how imperialism survives through occupation, resource theft, repression, and the betrayal of Pan-African liberation commitments.

Ghana Television began in 1965 with a mandate for education and social transformation. Today, Ghanaian media face neocolonial pressures, but efforts to reclaim progressive Pan-African values continue.

Africa was not the periphery of the anti-fascist war. From Ethiopia’s defiance of Mussolini to the Thiaroye massacre, Africans fought fascism abroad and empire at home — laying the foundations of post-war liberation and sovereignty.

The renewed struggle for sovereignty in the Sahel has been marked by advances in the cultural sphere, with new symbols to signal the break from neocolonialism.

On the heels of popular military coups, how are Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger returning to a path of sovereignty while navigating a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges?

There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy…

Dossier no. 63 explores the origins of the debt crisis in Africa, exposing the Western financial chokehold as its source and exploring what alternatives can be built.

This dossier analyses the growing fragility of the US-led ‘rules-based international order’ and examines the possibilities of regionalism to advance the construction of a new global system.