8 December 2017 The fall of Mugabe doesn't necessarily spell freedom for the people of Zimbabwe, writes Farai Maguwu

13 October 2017 Marienna Pope-Weidemann meets Sikhala Sonke, a grassroots social justice group led by the women of Marikana

12 July 2016 As its wealth is seized by foreign interests, Africa is facing a colonial invasion in many ways as devastating as the one it suffered in the nineteenth century. Ross Hemingway reports.

23 March 2015 Firoze Manji argues that the recent uprising in Burkina Faso throws light on the debate around development, and calls for our solidarity, not charity

14 February 2015 On Global Divestment Day Chris Garrard says its time for cultural institutions to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry

31 October 2014 Hamza Hamouchene introduces the revolutionary documentary, The Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969

19 June 2014 The six-month strike action might be nearing its end, but the suffering of union members and their families will continue. Supporters have begun a campaign calling for donations, Edward Dingwall reports.

7 March 2014 Patrick Kane of War on Want and Sarah Shoraka of Platform report from the Niger Delta on the Ogoni people’s struggle against Shell and the wider mobilisation in Nigeria towards 2015 as a ‘year of change’

6 December 2013 When Nelson Mandela came to Britain, the one place he visited beyond Westminster and Buckingham Palace was Brixton – and he had a rapturous welcome. Here Darcus Howe looks back at how the anti-apartheid movement interwove with the experience of black people in the UK

5 December 2013 Brian Ashley of South Africa's Amandla magazine says that in the battle to overcome inequality and achieve social justice, we will need many more Nelson Mandelas

5 December 2013 William Gumede pays tribute to the anti-apartheid leader – and contrasts his example to today's ANC

15 October 2012 On the 25th Anniversary of Sankara's assassination Sokari Ekrine considers the importance of his vision for women's emancipation.

14 October 2012 On the 25th anniversary of Sankara's assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe

25 August 2012 The struggle of miners at the Lonmin mine in South Africa is a turning point in organised workers’ relationship with the now thoroughly neoliberal ANC argues Leonard Gentle, setting the strike in historical and political context

8 July 2012 Róisín Hinds reports from the Zambian Copperbelt, a site of intense labour conflict linked to Chinese investment

16 January 2012 No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way, reviewed by Martin Legassick

2 January 2012 While the media again reports 'famine in the horn of Africa' caused by 'drought', Rasna Warah looks at the real reasons why people are going hungry

30 December 2011 Bandile Mdlalose talks to Lorna Stephenson about Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical poor people’s movement in South Africa

28 December 2011 South African activist Vishwas Satgar looks at post-apartheid South Africa 17 years on

26 December 2011 Sokari Ekine meets women’s movements in the Niger Delta and discovers that in this militarised country even small acts take courage

23 December 2011 Justin Pearce asks when African hope will translate into real change

22 December 2011 Firoze Manji charts the revolts and rebellions that have been occurring not just in northern Africa but across the whole continent

19 December 2011 The National Transitional Council’s ‘new Libya’ is all too familiar, writes Tommy Miles

26 November 2011 Marilyn McHarg, from Médecins sans Frontières, argues that aid groups don't discuss the reasons for food shortages

9 November 2011 A recent survey reveals that unsafe abortions are killing three women and girls daily in Malawi

9 October 2011 Peter Apps on a public art memorial to executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa

20 September 2011 Bobby Peek tells how the struggle for environmental rights is intertwined with the one over access to energy

23 May 2011 Amanda Sebystyen profiles individuals who participated in the Tunisian revolution, and their stories

23 May 2011 Amanda Sebestyen reports from a solidarity visit to Tunisia organised through the World Social Forum

12 April 2011 Tahrir Square activist Gigi Ibrahim shares her experience of overthrowing a dictator

11 April 2011 Mansoor Mirza on the Muslim Brotherhood

11 April 2011 The internet and the Arab uprisings. By Zahera Harb

11 April 2011 How the Egyptian revolution unfolded on Twitter

3 April 2011 In the case of Libya, liberal interventionists ignore the history of imperialism and the realities of power, writes Mike Marqusee

24 March 2011 Gilbert Archar interviewed by Stephen R. Shalom about the situation in Libya.

23 March 2011 Phyllis Bennis argues that foreign military intervention in Libya has little to do with humanitarian concerns, and protracted militarization could threaten the country's chance for real democratic development.

18 March 2011 Caroline Elliot reports on a wave of grass-roots organising in sub-Saharan Africa bringing together workers in the informal economy

16 February 2011 The importance of the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings for sub-Saharan Africa should not be overlooked, says Nicolo Gnecchi.

16 February 2011 Salwa Ismail on the fall of the Mubarak regime, and the new politics emerging in Egypt

14 February 2011 Red Pepper rounds up the best commentary and analysis on the situation in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak.