Africa

  • A close up photograph of former Libyan President Muamar Gaddafi

    Libya after Gaddafi

    Despite the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi, the National Transitional Council’s ‘new Libya’ is all too familiar, writes Tommy Miles

  • A man with his back to the camera in the foreground, looking towards a crowd of people, whilst a plume of smoke rises further behind them

    Libya: war is not the answer

    Phyllis Bennis argues that foreign military intervention in Libya has little to do with humanitarian concerns. Protracted militarization will threaten the country’s chance for real democratic development

  • A 19th century engraving showing enslaved afrikans being taken aboard a ship and forced below deck by its white crew

    The unfinished business of slavery

    The legacy of slavery continues to cast a long shadow over the present. Deborah Gabrielmakes the case for reparations