Last week, we discussed women’s bodies and labour as sites of colonial violence, why reparations cannot be charity or symbolism, and how neoliberalism, extractivism and climate injustice continue colonial harm. Reparations must repair lives, not just history. Watch 📺 youtu.be/W4Obr_rYTH0?...

Colonialism did not merely impose foreign rule, it systematically reinvented African social structures, identities and gender relations. Join us to rethink justice, repair, and accountability on the continent. 🔗 bit.ly/4kN9kFE

Follow the money. In Sudan, it runs through livestock markets, wheat exports, not just arms deals. theconversation.com/sudan-how-wa...

This story was packed with a million jaw-dropping moments 🤯

In Dakar fishing village, Senegalese girls enticed back to school with offer of surfing lessons.

Why are Gulf power struggles in the Horn framed as regional diplomacy and not militarisation? Africa is not a chessboard

You can’t dismantle a war machine while ignoring the international actors who fuel it especially arms routes long linked to Gulf states www.gov.uk/government/n...

I’m sharing this because Sudanese refugee women in Kampala are choosing to organise, speak, and heal on their own terms, even as humanitarian systems continue to underfund and sideline refugee women’s needs. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/photo-featur...

“Football is political, and AFCON’s birth was rooted in African anti-colonial resistance. Football arenas and discourse, therefore, cannot be divorced from the continent’s political and economic realities and contestations.” africanfeminism.com/why-the-afri...

Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We convened today for Bridging Policy and Practice: Roundtable on the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social EU Peer Review. We discussed how to align the EU’s strategic interests with its commitments to poverty reduction, inclusivity of Team Europe, and the HDP Nexus in fragile regions. bit.ly/4klvwGz

I wrote about loving a country, especially mine following the #Uganda election open.substack.com/pub/kemigish...?

Reproductive violence is war by another name. theconversation.com/how-reproduc...

I’ve been reading @thecontinent.org, it’s sharp, independent African journalism that treats readers with respect. Thought you’d enjoy it. If I could, I would give them all my monies. You can subscribe here. www.thecontinent.org/subscribe

The liberation struggles of Palestine, Congo, and Sudan do not exist in isolation; they represent a unified resistance against Western imperialism, global oppression, and resource extraction.

“The Black demand for reparations is impossible within the terms of this world order. If slavery is the material and metaphysical womb of the modern world, reparations will require nothing less than the end of this world.” africasacountry.com/2023/10/with...

Global financial inequalities are not anomalies; they show the neocolonial financial order working exactly as designed. amaniafrica-et.org/will-the-ffd...

The Continent nailed this 😄

Whose security are we talking about? This is militarised diplomacy disguised as partnership theconversation.com/iran-and-eth...

It’s not just that the G20 excludes most of Africa, it’s that it reflects a colonial economic order that treats Africa as a resource pool, not a decision-maker. One seat (SA) wasn’t justice. Adding the AU in 2023? Still symbolism without power. theconversation.com/g20-is-too-e...

War in Sudan: 'People are having to eat charcoal or boiled leaves to survive'.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 197 of The Continent At the Zambia-Malawi border, what Big Conservation sold like a fantasy in Disneyland has turned into a recurring nightmare. Nobody seems to have thought about the people living in the area and now 10 people are dead. bit.ly/TC_197

Calling women who have been murderer money-hungry is a grotesque way to excuse male violence.

To stand in solidarity with displaced Sudanese women is to reject erasure. It is to name the violence and the systems behind it. #EyesonSudan

CAR’s Boganda, Mozambique’s Samora Machel, Rwanda’s Habyarimana – and Dag Hammarskjöld: When plane crashes change African history.

South African soldiers in DRC: “This was a suicide mission”

Headline reads “how conflicts in the DRC and Sudan undermine Trump’s Africa policy”. Respectfully - is the policy in the room with us now?

Omdurman: Shelling at busy Sudanese market 'fills morgue with bodies'

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker

Stop outsourcing peace in the DRC to bureaucrats and regional armies. Invest in grassroots movements. The most overlooked peacebuilders are women who engage militias. We know of rebels who’ve been reintegrated into society bse they listened to women peacebuilders. theconversation.com/military-int...

Goma didn’t fall to M23. It fell to global capitalism, imperialism, and the greed of multinationals stealing DRC’s resources.

91-year old Cameroonian president Paul #Biya intends to run for an eighth term in October. With little in the way of independent institutions capable of challenging Biya, only the military pose a threat for the aging nonagenarian.

On any given day, you will read a dozen headilines about leveraging something or the other for Africa: “Leveraging AI for African development”, “leveraging green energy for African..”, “leveraging AfCFA for African prosperity”. The continent is at the risk of being “overleveraged”.

May all of Sudan 🇸🇩 be free! 🥹

M23 rebels muddy minerals market with illegal Rwanda exports, says UN report www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...

#Mozambique’s police opened fire on mourners after the funeral of thirty-year old video-blogger ‘Mano Shottas’. It has shocked Mozambique’s dogged protest movement – which continues to dispute the 9 October election outcome, despite police brutality. (1/5)

Sudan’s crisis isn’t just about warlords, but systems. It is not an isolated event but a consequence of global militarized capitalism. Sanctions are a step but they don’t solve systemic issues and mean little when the global North profits from Sudan’s gold & arms trade. www.state.gov/genocide-det...

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The Guardian has named the 80 women murdered this year where a man was charged. One every 3 days. Terrible. So many husbands, boyfriends, even brothers & sons are killers. What is behind this? 2024 is the year I realised I truly do not understand men. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Al Jazeera columnist Tafi Mhaka called on the African Union to stop being "passive" and take proactive measures to end the bloodshed in Sudan. As we enter 2025, the fact that hopes for peace in Sudan are being pinned on mediation offer by Turkiye's President Erdogan, highlights the AU's ineptness.

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The other app is full of AI-generated “female Ruto” images. Not clever! Feminizing a man to ridicule him doesn’t challenge his politics, it upholds the same patriarchal logic that devalues womxn and weaponises womxnhood as an insult. It’s lazy and sexist. Do better!

“Importunate foreign powers also have this in common: they seemingly cannot abide the thought of Syria’s people independently charting their own future. Last week’s revolution – the overdue denouement of a popular revolt begun in 2011 – was ultimately achieved despite them.”

The world’s silence on Sudan is a reflection of whose lives are deemed valuable. The inaction is not neutrality, it’s complicity.

Gold flows to Dubai, while Sudan burns! “Unless the international community is willing to stop foreign actors from fuelling the conflict, Sudan risks descending into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis that will haunt the world for decades to come.” theconversation.com/sudan-is-bur...

Ghana’s Affirmative Action Bill (like in many African countries) says, ‘Hey parties, maybe put more women in parliament?’ But what if we tried actual commitments instead of polite suggestions?

Decades of military interventions in Chad didn’t solve the Sahel’s crises. The Sahel doesn’t need more military bases - that's a bandage on systemic issues like inequality & marginalization theconversation.com/chads-break-...

TW: Sexual Assault “In Japanese, we have a certain way we’re supposed to speak as women—it’s not okay to show anger, to be emotional. When I decided to face this whole thing, I couldn’t think with my mother tongue. English gave me a tool to speak, to be angry.” www.elle.com/culture/movi...

What good would it do to replace one oppressor with a different one? - Mona Eltahawy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📝 Registered! Looking forward to the conversation Uncertain Path(s) Ahead: African and Nordic Perspectives and UN Security Council Reform. A moment to challenge colonial power structures, decolonize global governance, and center African feminist resistance. alcoffice.systems/civicrm/even...