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Got an idea to share at #PAYF2026? As we mark 20 years of the African Youth Charter #AYCat20, we’re inviting young people, organisations and partners to propose sessions and shape the conversation.
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💼 Applications for the 2027 Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships are now open - giving emerging African leaders the opportunity to work at @AfDB_Group, @ECA_OFFICIAL or @ITCnews, and join the #NGN.
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The xenophobic narrative against Burundians in Kenya are not organic. They are sponsored. Period ! Let us not fall for it.
There is a concerted effort by foreign intelligence agencies to undermine African integration in response to the global political shift that is threatening the western financial institutions, their military operations and neoliberal policies. I am talking about South Africa joining BRICS; Alliance of Sahel Countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger; and East African Community Integration e.t.c
Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa are regional political and economic hegemonies, and their stability and influence are critical to Africa's integration.
What better way to weaken continental unity than to fuel xenophobia within these critical countries? Because when Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa is destabilised socially to hate each other, the consequences extend far beyond their border and to other countries…they have a continental effect.
KENYANS SHOULD BE SMART. Don’t fall for it.
Seven years after Robert Mugabe’s death, we revisit a speech that captured the worldview that defined much of his political life.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September 2007, Mugabe declared: “I am termed a dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists in their endeavour to keep us as slaves in our own country.” (Digital Library)
For Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s independence was never meant to end with replacing white-minority rule with a Black government. He believed true independence also required control over land, resources and the country’s economic future. He grew increasingly distrustful of Britain and other Western powers, arguing that colonial domination could continue through economic and political influence after formal colonial rule had ended.
That belief shaped his fierce defence of Zimbabwean sovereignty and his refusal to accept what he saw as Western nations positioning themselves as authorities over African governments. His speeches repeatedly returned to colonialism, land, racial inequality and what he described as neo-colonial interference.
Mugabe’s 37 years in power remain deeply contested. Acknowledging the thinking behind his politics does not erase the repression, violence or economic devastation associated with his rule. Understanding Mugabe also means understanding the history that shaped him: colonial Rhodesia, racial dispossession, the liberation struggle and his conviction that Africans should never again have to ask former colonial powers for permission to determine their own future.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe died on 6 September 2019. Today, 7 September 2026, marks seven years since his death.
A South African plant called Hoodia had been used by the San people for thousands of years to suppress hunger on long hunts. In 1995, a South African research council patented its active compound. That patent got sold to a UK company, which sold worldwide marketing rights to Pfizer, for $32 million, to build diet pills. The San people, who actually held that knowledge for generations, weren’t the ones who got rich off it.
That’s the pattern. Western researchers come here, sit with our traditional healers, study the herbs and roots they’ve used for generations, then go back home and turn it into patents, tablets, and multi-million dollar products. Meanwhile, our own medical students rarely walk into a traditional healer’s compound to learn anything. They graduate knowing Western pharmacology inside and out, and know almost nothing about the herbal knowledge sitting in their own communities.
It’s not just medicine. We have snake doctors across this continent with real, tested skill in treating venom, but no young person is apprenticing under them to refine and modernize that knowledge. We have market women and local traders who understand our economies better than any imported theory ever will, but our economics students aren’t studying how they actually operate. We have blacksmiths, builders, herbalists, all holding knowledge built over centuries, and almost nobody coming back to learn from them, document it, or improve on it.
Look at a place like Iran: they took their own building traditions and refined them over centuries into something the world now studies. We keep doing the opposite, abandoning what’s ours the moment something foreign shows up, without ever asking if what we already had was worth keeping.
Nobody made us believe our own knowledge was worth less. We just stopped defending it.