New African (UK)

6 days ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Anver Versi

One of the titans of African Literature, the Kenyan Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o died at the age of 87 in the United States on May 28. He was a fearless champion of the rights of people in their battle against oppression and a tireless proponent of literature written in African languages. Anver Versi was one of this students in the 1970s. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was my lecturer in African Literature when I was a first year student at the University of Nairobi in the early 1970s.

3 weeks ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Anver Versi

The developing world is still reeling from the sudden and wholesale dismantling of the world’s largest aid organisation the United States Agency for International Development. The swinging cuts loped off billions of dollars of support for some of the world’s most needy. At the same time, the world’s biggest philanthropic organisation, the Gates Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary by saying it would double its spend to $200bn over a 20 year period.

1 month ago | newafricanmagazine.com | Mushtak Parker

Now that the dust has settled following the astonishing decision in March by the Donald Trump administration to effectively expel the South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool over a speech he made, we are privileged to interview the former ambassador. He discusses with Mushtak Parker the state of relations between South Africa and the United States, the implications for Sub-Saharan Africa and the shifting shape of the global power order.

Mar 10, 2025 | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

Thierry de Montbrial is a French academic and geopolitical scientist. He is the founding president of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), a think tank he established in 1979. He is also a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He has published L’Ère des affrontements: les grands tournants géopolitiques (The Age of Confrontation: Major Geopolitical Turning Points) with Dunod. He analyses the state of the world in the Trump era.

Feb 19, 2025 | newafricanmagazine.com | Hichem Ben Yaïche

A protean personality, Mohamed Aziza, writer, poet and man of action, author of some twenty books, is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Med 21 Programme. You’ve just finished writing your memoirs, retracing your long and eclectic career. How did you go about capturing the experience of a lifetime? I hesitated for a long time before embarking on the perilous exercise of writing a memoir.