Rachel Dubale

Oct 14, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Elizabeth Schmidt |William Shoki |Rachel Dubale |Alex Park

While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated. Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state? On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?

Dec 8, 2023 | theelephant.info | Rachel Dubale

The East African Community (EAC), whose goal is to achieve economic and political federation, brings together three former British colonies – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania – and newer members Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and most recently the Democratic Republic of Congo. Somalia first applied to join the EAC in 2012 but with fighting still ongoing on the outskirts of Mogadishu, joining the bloc was impossible at the time.

Nov 21, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Rachel Dubale |Ryan Brunette |John Reynolds |Sean Jacobs

On November 19, Javier Milei secured the presidency of the Republic of Argentina with 56% of the vote. However, his victory is expected to significantly impact a specific segment of the country. During my six-month exchange in Argentina’s Venado Tuerto (pop. 75,000) in 2016, I encountered someone of shared Black ethnicity on the street only once. A person whom many locals incidentally mistook for me—along with a Cuban Black girl, the only black person like me in the whole high school.

Oct 5, 2023 | amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Rachel Dubale

The origins and escalation of the Tigray conflictIT WILL BE TWO YEARS EXACTLY IN November this year since the primordial outbreak of the Ethiopian war in the Tigray region. This war pitted the paramilitary group, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a former ruling party in Ethiopia, against the forces of the Ethiopian Federal Government. The catalyst for this turmoil was the holding of general elections in Tigray in September 2020.

Sep 29, 2023 | afriquexxi.info | Rachel Dubale

Sur le panneau d’un petit stand de rue d’Addis-Abeba, une enseigne lumineuse indique : Fendika. Il semble n’avoir rien de spécial, hormis le fait que ce panneau est l’un des rares à être éclairé dans le quartier central de Kazanchis1. Le centre culturel est rempli de touristes qui visitent le quartier, surtout les lundis, les mercredis et les vendredis soirs.