Who are the Baloch Liberation Army? Pakistan train hijacking was fuelled by decades of neglect and violence: Pakistan’s army has freed hundreds of hostages from a passenger train that was seized by armed militants in the south-western province of Balochistan on Tuesday, March 11. A number of those on board were military officials and police …
Steve Biko, the South African struggle hero who was prepared to sacrifice his life for black liberation: What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? Jacob Dlamini explores this and other questions in his new book, Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa. This edited extract, from the …
Ethiopia’s peace pacts with the Oromo Liberation Front have failed: here’s what was missing: Two attempts have been made over the past six years to broker peace between the Ethiopian government and the armed rebel group Oromo Liberation Front. The armed group was formed half a century ago with the goal of carving out an …
Nkoli: The Vogue Opera – the making of a musical about a queer liberation activist in South Africa: The history of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid (separatist white minority rule) is taught only through the broadest of brushstrokes in the country’s schools. So might music be a way to bring the story of one anti-apartheid …
Painted messages in Angola’s abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record: Lilian Ngoyi, one of the leaders of the 1956 women’s march against apartheid, is immortalised on an abandoned building. Justin Pearce In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN …
How Kwame Nkrumah’s midnight speech set a tradition for marking the moment of liberation: Kwame Nkrumah's vision still resonates with Ghanaians JB Dodane/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC As Ghana celebrates the 65th anniversary of its independence from Britain, it is worth revisiting the landmark speech Kwame Nkrumah delivered at midnight to mark the event of Ghana’s …
Radio has a rich history as a weapon of the liberation struggle in southern Africa: Wits University Press Radio, known for decades as ‘Africa’s medium’, has many magical qualities. It’s an intimate medium with the ability to transcend borders. It chimes with Africa’s strong oral culture and it is ephemeral – it lives in the …
South Africa’s liberation war veterans are angry: here’s why: Umkhonto we Sizwe army veterans stand to attention during the 75th birthday celebrations of the governing ANC in 2017. EFE-EPA/Cornell Turiki The late 1950s was an era of growing resistance to the apartheid’s state’s application of discriminatory laws in South Africa. The resistance, led by the …
Women’s memories of food offer insights into Mozambique’s liberation struggle: © Jonna Katto We don’t just taste food. Aromas, visual images, sounds and touch are equally part of our eating experience. Food also evokes feelings. We can experience it with joy but also with displeasure. This sensorily evocative power of food makes it an important …
South Africa in the news: SA trade union lambasts Zimbabwe vicious grip of a failed liberation movement: Numsa general-secretary Irvin Jim blasted the country’s governing party and former liberation movement, Zanu-PF, as despotic and accused the ANC-led government in SA of being timid to call it out.: “South Africa” – BingNews England vs Pakistan: Ben …
Denis Goldberg: Rivonia triallist, liberation struggle stalwart, outspoken critic: Rivonia trialist Denis Goldberg speaking at a gala event in 2011 to honour the surviving members of the Rivonia Trial. Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Denis Theodore Goldberg, one of the stalwarts in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, has passed on at the age …
Art as a weapon in South Africa’s liberation struggle: Detail from a poster for the Codesa talks. Judy Seidman Judy Ann Seidman and her artwork embody the feminist maxim that the personal is political, and the political is personal. US-born Seidman is an artist and activist based in South Africa who, for more than four …
The ANC: the story of a liberation movement that’s lost its lustre: South Africa's next elections will indicate how the ANC is viewed given that the poor been left behind. EPA/Kim Ludbrook South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) celebrates its 107th birthday this year against a backdrop of an election campaign it’s likely to …
Why same-sex marriage is not the ultimate tool for queer liberation: There must be a queerer way to think about marriage. Felipe Trueba/EPA Is same-sex marriage a valid option for gay and lesbian people? In my research I am among those who have vociferously argued about the pitfalls of same-sex marriage. I, and others like …
For Africa’s people, culture and heritage are a form of liberation: Malagasy people take part in famadihana, the ritual of the dead, to honour their ancestors. Tee La Rosa/Flickr Today, much effort is made to retell the stories of political activists who advanced the liberation of South Africa from apartheid. The heroic actions of Steve …
Southern Africa’s liberation movements: can they abandon old bad habits?: Both South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa need to reform their parties. GCIS Until recently, southern Africa’s political and economic outlook seemed to be moving in a promising direction. The highlights were provided by Zimbabwe and South Africa with the displacement …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: Women Played a Major Role in SA’s Liberation Struggle – Dudu Chili: Women parliamentarians, former anti-apartheid stalwarts, as well as civil society activists and ordinary women are meeting in Tshwane for the annual Women’s Parliament summit, which also commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March.: “South …
A Mbongeni Ngema video production – Sarafina!The Music Of Liberation (Broadway Cast Recording) – 06.Give Us Power: Sarafina!The Music Of Liberation (Broadway Cast Recording) – 06.Give Us Power Written by Mbongeni Ngema. Music and lyrics by Mbongeni Ngema. Additional songs by Hugh Masekela. Musical arrangements by Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masekela Get WP Robot for …