Africa has historically been absolutely vital to the industrialization of Europe as a source of natural resources and human labor. Modern Europe owes its development to the availability of Africa’s ...

China is securing dominance in the global minerals sector by propping up illegitimate regimes, bribing government officials for mining rights, and actively encouraging gross violations of human rights ...

Africa needs to shift from resource curse which have marked it for so long to a resource blessing. This requires a fundamental change in the attitudes of Africa’s leadership, which in the past only ...

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The state of Africa’s transition to renewable energy is anything but positive. While the continent is home to bountiful wind and solar potential, not to mention the raw materials like cobalt that are ...

This week, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary titled “Racism for Sale,” an investigation by Runako Celina and Henry Mhango into the Chinese video-making industry built on the exploitation of ...

African governments get a lot of bashing for stealing and mismanaging their country’s natural resources. Some, including progressive non profit organisations in the Global North, insist that most of ...

Pope Francis arrives in Kinshasa, Congo, Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023. Francis is in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven ...

Both England and France are bending every effort to explore their African lands, develop better means of communication and begin the exploitation of the Dark Continent’s natural resources on an ...

Russia's engagement with Africa, once marked by ideological solidarity and support for liberation movements, has dramatically transformed over recent years. Today, this relationship is marred by ...

John Dramani Mahama called on the international community to move beyond symbolism and dismantle what he described as the "persistent engines of exploitation" that continue to hold Africa and the ...