Africa Archives - Red Pepper

My Country: Africa – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Andrée Blouin's autobiography, whilst messy at points, charts a clear history of resistance to colonial oppression, writes Olivia Umuerwa Rutazibwa

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Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism

Gerry Hart — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi

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Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000

In documenting the life and work of Amy Ashwood Garvey, Nydia A. Swaby offers a window into the inspiring and overlooked story of black womens' history, writes Panya Banjoko

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Crude injustice in the Niger Delta

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:41:01 +0000

Transnational oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction. Obiora Ikoku reports on the communities demanding reparation

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Kenya’s youth-led revolution

Siobhan McGuirk — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:25:34 +0000

Rasna Warah reports on how young people in and beyond Kenya are using social media to challenge corrupt, old-school politicians

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Battles for land and gender justice in Kenya’s Loita Hills

Siobhan McGuirk — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Stephanie Leah Simmons Wood speaks to the Loita Maasais fighting ‘demarcation’ and navigating threats to tradition, corporate interests and opportunities for women’s empowerment

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Sudan’s lost revolution

Siobhan McGuirk — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:52:27 +0000

The hopes of the grassroots, citizens’ revolution have given way to the brutality and violence of rentier elites in Sudan, writes Raga Makawi

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The global battle against Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Siobhan McGuirk — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:06:27 +0000

As states across Africa threaten LGBTQ+ communities, Chiamaka Muoneke reports on the colonial roots of homophobic laws – and the digital activism fuelling resistance

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Fighting Kenya’s femicide

Lydia Hughes — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Grassroots socialist and feminist organising in spaces like Kayole Social Justice Centre, Nairobi, are leading the fight against patriarchy, capitalism, and a colonial present, writes Maryanne Kasina

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Liberation by the masses

Sanaa Alimia — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Revolutionary pan-Africanist Walter Rodney understood Palestinian liberation would be driven by the people writes Chinedu Chukwudinma

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