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Youths in Zimbabwe Are Not Rejecting Politics – They Are Reshaping it
Youth political participation in Zimbabwe is often described in familiar terms: party membership, mobilisation through rallies, and the manipulation of unemployed young people into ... -
Madagascar’s Unfinished Revolution: Can a Youth Uprising Break the Country’s Political Curse?
In Madagascar, a youth-led revolt has toppled a president and ushered in a military-led transition. Whether this moment becomes a democratic turning point—or yet ... -
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Academic Freedom under Threat in African Universities
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Mozambique: A revolution born in the search for electoral justice
Another stolen election has sent the people into the streets. They await Venancio Mondlane, the leader of the protest movement. The old elite await ... -
Harris or Trump? South Africa’s AGOA fate hangs in the balance
Facing Washington’s wrath for her perceived anti-US foreign policy positions may not be as catastrophic as previously imagined. As Americans vote in the presidential ... -
Zimbabwe: The rise of the mbingas
Commonly called mbingas for their penchant for luxury, many of Zimbabwe’s richest men and women are vessels for the ruling party’s looting of state ... -
How traffickers got away with the biggest rosewood heist in history
Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood from Madagascar, the logs sit in limbo in a Singapore port. On ... -
South Africa: Will an investor-friendly mining policy turn the economy around?
Reviving South Africa’s flagging mining sector will take much more than the cosmetics of a new investor-friendly policy. The establishment of South Africa’s Government ...











