Sharon Tshipa

Jul 10, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sa’eed Husaini |Keith Ang'ana |Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki

Nigeria does not typically figure prominently in the global history of anticolonial radicalism, leftist revolutionary movements, or Pan-African solidarity. Nor is this entirely unfair. Nigerian independence leaders, including Nnamdi Azikiwe and especially Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, provided some of the staunchest opposition to Nkrumah’s proposals for an Africa-wide political union.

Jul 9, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Harrison Stetler |Keith Ang'ana |Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki

There is nothing inevitable about the rise of the far right, which French voters again overwhelming rejected on July 7. Last night, the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) alliance pulled off a historic upset in France’s snap parliamentary elections, emerging in Sunday’s runoff vote as the largest bloc in the incoming National Assembly.

Jul 8, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Keith Ang'ana |Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki |Sean Jacobs

On November 27, 2019, at a rally pushing the Building Bridges Initiative at the Bomas of Kenya, Amani National Congress Party Leader Musalia Mudavadi was the first to speak. Mudavadi took to the podium to urge then-President Uhuru Kenyatta to address the country’s difficult economic situation. He said, “The economy is ailing.

Jul 6, 2024 | znetwork.org | Sharon Tshipa

“I cannot entirely say that totems have helped in our ecosystem and biodiversity conservation,” says Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, when I ask him about the connections between spiritual beliefs and his country’s globally recognized ecological wealth. Sechele III is a chief who is the direct descendant of one of Botswana’s founders, Sechele I, who was renowned as a brave warrior of the Tswana-Boer Wars of 1852-1853.

Jul 5, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki |Sean Jacobs |Adam Aboobaker

“I cannot entirely say that totems have helped in our ecosystem and biodiversity conservation,” says Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, when I ask him about the connections between spiritual beliefs and his country’s globally recognized ecological wealth. Sechele III is a chief who is the direct descendant of one of Botswana’s founders, Sechele I, who was renowned as a brave warrior of the Tswana-Boer Wars of 1852-1853.