An Epitaph If the following reads like an epitaph, this indeed is what it is.  The end of Mugabe’s political life at the age of 93 is like an end

Yilmaz Akyuz, Playing with Fire: Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South, Oxford University Press, 2017. Book Review Yilmaz Akyuz is one of very few people with

The beginning of a third revolutionary epoch? As I write this blog, the Western media is awash with the news of the week-long 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

In The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o challenges the colonial presentation of Kimathi as a depraved, mad, terrorist. Ngugi presents an alternative nationalist narrative of Kimathi as a

President Jacob Zuma narrowly survived the recent (9 August, 2017) parliamentary secret ballot on no confidence in him.  177 MPs voted for the motion, 198 against and 9 abstained. Clearly,

Germany holds this year’s presidency of the G20.[1] On 12-13 June 2017, the German government organised a high-level conference in the historic city of Berlin where Africa was fragmented in

On 3 April 2017, the secretariat of 79 countries from ACP (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) issued a statement saying they would “speak with one voice” to negotiate the

On 22 March 2017 Khalid Masood perpetrated on the grounds of England’s Westminster Palace what was described by the British security forces and the media as a “terrorist attack”. The

I started observing the elections in the United States the moment I realised that Ronald Trump was an unusual phenomenon in US history. I wrote a series of seven weekly