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AFRICA, OUR HOME, OUR STORY.
Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali - founding members of the Alliance of Sahel States - have, in unison, announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Young Africans are increasingly refusing to tolerate the bad old ways. The new generation is pushing back against corrupt governance, injustice, inequality and state impunity.
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
France's economic development has been, in large part, thanks to its plundering of Africa. Not just during colonial times, but also today - when stealing resources via exploitative agreements is dressed up as cooperation.
October 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
It’s two years to the day since Tel Aviv’s military onslaught on Gaza began. Last month, a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that there is an ongoing genocide in the Strip.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Liverpool City College student Callum Johnson-Mills caught the attention of the world when this 14 August clip of him calling out the BBC for being complicit in Israel’s military onslaught on Gaza went viral.
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Treason, war crimes, murder and sexual assault. A Congolese (DRC) military court recently found ex-president Joseph Kabila guilty on all counts - and sentenced the 54-year-old to death.
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, was a beloved friend of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).
October 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
It only took France 128 years, but, at the end of August, it finally surrendered the skull of a western Malagasy royal it butchered as its colonial forces massacred his people for daring to resist the French.
October 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
4th October, marks 64 years since students at Burglund High School in McComb, Mississippi staged a walkout. They were angry at the unfair expulsion of three students.
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why did apartheid end? In this debate, an audience member states that the brutal regime that had South Africa in a stranglehold for over four decades collapsed because an international movement made it impossible for European settlers to run their businesses, travel and play sports.
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Party (EFF), has unwaveringly used his voice to speak out against the oppression of the Palestinian people.
October 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Assata Shakur, an icon in the Black liberation struggle, died in Havana on 25 September 2025. She was 78. The Cuban authorities say her death was linked to ‘advanced age.’
October 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Today, we remember the Parsley Massacre. It began on 2 October 1937 and lasted about a week. US-backed Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the slaughter of thousands of Haitians near the border at the Dajabón River.
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
POWER EXTENSION: TURNING BLACK BEAUTY INTO BLACK PROFITS

Black beauty is big business - but not for Black businesses.

For example, the global Black hair-care market is booming: it was worth over $3 billion in 2023, and is projected to reach $4.6 billion by 2032.
October 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sixty-five years ago today, the Union Jack was lowered in Lagos and British colonial rule over Nigeria ended. Independent Nigeria's green-white-green flag has been flying proudly ever since.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In a bold act of civil disobedience, abolitionists in Syracuse, New York, freed fugitive slave William ‘Jerry’ Henry (1811-53) from federal custody on this day in 1851.
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM