Are we going back to the 1960(s), what do Coups mean to African democracy? These questions were asked by the Africans Rising coordinator, Hardi Yakubu in his opening remarks as he set the pace for discussions during a webinar organised…
This morning, I celebrate Africa Day with all Africans. I wish we could give this day more reverence as Afrikan people as we do to some holidays like Christmas and Easter. We are all Afrikans first before we belong to…
by Kerubo Abuya, PhD As we commemorate International Women’s Day on March 08, 2022, let us remember the late Sigara Onkware, Sindege Mayaka, Agnes Moraa Ototo, and Jemima Nyang’ate Mironga, who were brutally attacked, abducted from their homes, thoroughly beaten…
Coumba Toure, @Kuumbati Storyteller; Movement Co-coordinator, Africans Rising; Board Chair, TrustAfrica Koni Benson, Organiser and historian at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Research Fellow, Blue Planet Project Meera Karunananthan, Feminist geographer, Carleton University – Canada; Co-director,…
I am passionate about South Africa despite its painful history: the horrors of Dutch colonization, the segregation that predated apartheid, and the deep wound of the apartheid era along its crimes against humanity. During this year’s Day of the African…
The rise in the wave of resistance movements of the African peoples around the middle of the last century has been said to be connected to the titanic rise in the desire of the African to assert her full humanhood…
[vc_row][vc_column][vcmp_buttons vcmp_button_type=”d-button-mini” vcmp_button_text=”Français” vcmp_button_url=”https://africansrising.org/le-senegal-a-adopte-une-loi-qui-criminalise-lesclavage-voici-pourquoi-cela-est-important/” vcmp_button_icon_show=”vcmp-icon-show” vcmp_button_icon=”adtheme-icon-file” vcmp_button_align=”vcmp-align-left” vcmp_button_border_type=”vcmp-border-round” vcmp_button_text_color=”#ffffff” vcmp_button_background_color=”#00591f” vcmp_button_border_color=”#000000″][vc_single_image image=”15469″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]It has been eleven years since Senegal’s National Assembly passed a law declaring the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of African people a crime against…
[vc_row][vc_column][vcmp_heading vcmp_heading_text=”Africans Are Rising”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today when a person is born with black skin, there is a heavy determinism related to their skin tone that diminishes their life expectancy, their access to quality education, food, and healthcare as well as their access…
African Feminist Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery Statement Preamble: African feminists have come together to reimagine the future of African political economies. This statement to the African Union envoys, who were appointed to mobilise international support for our economic recovery, contains a…
Oppression does not exist in isolation, and the Palestinian struggle has multiple points of intersectionality with countless struggles across the African continent for they all are struggles against a global system of the few – a system anchored on capitalism, patriarchy and dispossession.
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