Gearing to meet SDG goals
Sustainable Development Goals’ state of play: Why humanity is failing on the journey to 2030
Racial time: The whiteness of the ‘glorious past’ in Tunisian popular histories
Shreya examines how popular narratives of Tunisia’s “glorious past,” particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while erasing indigenous, Amazigh, and Black …
Is the CCM Losing Tanzania?
On October 29, 2025 Tanzania went to the polls. Or rather, a few Tanzanians went to the polls, in some cases seemingly under duress, but many stayed at home.
Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire
This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imperialist political establishment, …
Sounds of the Africa Cup of Nations
It is impossible to imagine the Africa Cup of Nations without music.
Le paradoxe sénégalais
Durant la dernière décennie, une révolution discrète mais décisive a redessiné le paysage du football sénégalais.
Africa’s Next Peace Frontier Is Digital Sovereignty: Reflections from the Lomé Peace and...
There are moments when a forum stops being a gathering and becomes a mirror. The Lomé Peace and Security Forum (11–12 October 2025) did exactly that—a quiet reframing of African peace and security through the lens of technological power.
SA 2025: Scenic route from G20 to NGC
This was the year that was — South Africa’s chequered 2025, a year that ends not with resolution, but with reckoning
Three footballers walk into a stadium
Zinedine Zidane, Kylian Mbappé and Riyad Mahrez walking into the same stadium sounds like the opening
Climateflation and Water Scarcity: Why Africa Faces the World’s Sharpest Food-Security Risks
In Lagos, a maize seller recently doubled her prices within a single year. In Morocco, pipelines stretch across barren plains, carrying desalinated water to farms that once relied on rainfall.
Great Lakes strife calls for no bias
US partiality towards one party risks subverting mediator role in Washington Process
The Senegalese paradox
Over the past decade, a silent revolution has reshaped the landscape of Senegalese football.
Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon (1925–1961).
Development, war and agriculture in the Arab-Iranian region – rethinking the agrarian question
From 6-8 November 2025, the Observatoire de la Souveraineté Alimentaire et de l’Environement (OSAE) organized an international conference in Tunis titled Development, War, and Agriculture in the Arab-Iranian Region – Rethinking the …
High cost of US decoupling from China
Tariffs were meant to punish Chinese exporters and encourage American manufacturing; instead, they have raised prices for US consumers
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 another loop in Madagascar’s long cycle of crises—still hangs in the balance.