Pan Africa Newsletter

Each month our team publishes the Pan Africa Newsletter, where we elaborate on and amplify the theories of leading social and political movements while bridging the gap between movement-based intellectuals and academic thinkers, and share recent activities from our Pan-African institute based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The Economics of Thomas Sankara

The Eighth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)
What does liberation require when poverty has been engineered by history, dependency is sold as development, and dignity can only be won through collective discipline, popular power and self-reliance?
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The Future – We Build It Now

The Seventh Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)
Ghana has gold but mining communities are poor, oil but fuel burdens workers: veteran socialist Kwesi Pratt Jnr argues that Africa’s future belongs to those who organise to break this contradiction.
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Against Forgetting: Building Inkani Review

The Fifth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)
When power depends on forgetting, memory becomes a battlefield: a new home for rigorous, movement-facing criticism is opening to connect the fragments, sharpen analysis, and turn reading into collective organised resistance.
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Thirst by Design

The Fourth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)
From Mali to Sudan, armed groups govern land and water where structural adjustment destroyed the state — our latest dossier shows that the Sahel’s crisis is not climate conflict but class war driven by imperialism.
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Why Is There a Woman at the Maandamano (Protests)?

The Third Pan-Africa Newsletter (2026)
Kenya’s security forces weaponised sexual violence to crush women’s participation in the Gen-Z uprising — exposing how neoliberal austerity and patriarchal repression converge on working-class women’s bodies across the continent.
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Television for Social Change in Ghanaian History

The Twelfth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2025)
Ghana Television began in 1965 with a mandate for education and social transformation. Today, Ghanaian media face neocolonial pressures, but efforts to reclaim progressive Pan-African values continue.
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Africa Was Not the Periphery of the Anti-Fascist War

The Tenth Pan-Africa Newsletter (2025)
Africa was not the periphery of the anti-fascist war. From Ethiopia’s defiance of Mussolini to the Thiaroye massacre, Africans fought fascism abroad and empire at home — laying the foundations of post-war liberation and sovereignty.
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