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How Targeted Somali Communities Answer Hostile Rhetoric
When political rhetoric targets an entire community, who gets heard? This article examines how money and media can amplify political attacks and how Somali communities can respond through counter-speech, collective organization, civic power, and political representation.
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The Forgotten Slave Trade of East Africa
For centuries, thousands of enslaved Africans were forced from the interior of East Africa to coastal ports such as Zanzibar and Bagamoyo, then transported across the Indian Ocean to Arabia, Persia, India, and beyond. Their story became part of a vast slave-trading system that history too often overlooks.
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The Price of Sovereignty
Political independence gave African nations their flags, but economic independence remained elusive. From Patrice Lumumba and Kwame Nkrumah to Thomas Sankara and today’s Sahel, discover why challenging foreign control over Africa’s wealth has often carried a heavy price.
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The Countries Fueling Sudan’s War
Foreign powers are turning Sudan’s civil war into a wider struggle for gold, military influence and control of the Red Sea.