Africa

The True Origins Of Mutual Aid And Danger Of Getting It Wrong

April 24, 2026 Zede, Substack. Strategize! Africa, Cooperatives, Indigenous culture, Mutual Aid

There is a conversation happening on social media, in organizing circles, in group chats and comment sections about what mutual aid is, what it can do, and whether it is failing. But it is, in my view, asking the wrong question. The question is not whether mutual aid works. It does. It has, for centuries. The better question is whether mutual aid, as most people currently practice it, can reliably function as a long-term welfare system for entire communities. My answer is no— not by itself. Not without structure. This essay is my attempt to lay out what I mean by that. I want to trace where mutual aid actually comes from.

Across Africa, Farmers Are Adopting Regenerative Agricultural Practices

April 17, 2026 Kate Schecter, Resilience. Create! Africa, climate crisis, Food Sovereignty, Regenerative Farming

The US and Israel’s attack on Iran has led to significant price increases on fuel. Oil and gas capture the headlines. But fertilizer prices could also skyrocket, especially in low-income countries. This is what happened when Russia invaded Ukraine. In African countries, dependency on imported fertilizers underlines the need for a new approach to food production and distribution. That new approach is often called food sovereignty. In the past, civil society groups and international development organizations have focused on food security, ensuring people have enough to eat.

Co-op Banking Of The African Diaspora Has Implications Beyond Finance

April 17, 2026 Alice Toomer-McAlpine, Coop News. Create! Africa, Banking, Cooperatives, Roscas

In this absorbing book, Caroline Shenaz Hossein (pictured) tells the story of the informal co-operative banks and rotating savings and credit associations (Roscas) used by the African diaspora, and of the women who run them. Rosca is the term used by academics to collectively describe these informal banking institutions, while their members around the world use a range of names depending on their geographic and cultural context, such as the Jamaican Pardner, Peruvian Juntas or Egyptian Gameeyaa. The term Susu is used in Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and St. Vincent, while Hagbad, Shalongo, Ayuuto are used in Somalia.

A Call From Africa: Standing With Cuba Against Imperialist Aggression

March 26, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, Cuba, Economic Blockade, International Solidarity

Across the African continent, progressive movements, grassroots organizations, and Pan-African networks are rallying in renewed solidarity with Cuba at a moment of deepening crisis. While global media narratives often reduce Cuba’s situation to internal failure (a narrative activists and many Cubans claim is imperialist propaganda), African movements are advancing solidarity rooted in history and shared struggle. International solidarity with the people of Cuba is rising, with caravans of medicines and food supplies being mobilized to support the island in the face of the ongoing siege.

‘A.I. Is African Intelligence’: Workers Who Train A.I. Fight Back

March 19, 2026 Jason Koebler, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Africa, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Labelers, Worker Rights

Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas. “It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man.

Why The Iran War Matters For African Sovereignty And Stability

March 19, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, Iran, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The war on Iran by Israel and the United States has continued to unfold through attacks and bombings of a country that was already engaged in negotiations. While the conflict is centered in West Asia, its political and economic implications have now extended beyond the region. However, beyond these immediate economic effects, such as the surge in oil prices, the war raises important questions for Africa, a continent that has historically been at the mercy of imperialism, about the fragility of sovereignty in a world where powerful states can impose sanctions, initiate military confrontations, and reshape geopolitical realities with limited accountability on the global stage just because you don’t get along.

The Global African Implications Of US-Israel Aggression towards Iran

March 11, 2026 Pambazuka News Editors, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, IAEA, Iran, Israel, Wars and Militarism

The people of Iran deserve to live free from imperialist wars. They are not fodder in imperialist wars of domination. Pambazuka voices its solidarity with the people of Iran as they stand up to the military aggression against their country. For days in February 2026, the US began a buildup of military presence in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. In January, the US Submarine Abraham Lincoln, which has been operating in the South China Sea, was redirected to West Asia. The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), which has been part of the illegal military campaign to capture Nicolas Maduro in Operation Absolute Resolve, was also deployed to West Asia in this aggression campaign codenamed Operation Epic Fury.

Blacks On The Continent And In The Diaspora Experience Crisis Of Ownership

February 26, 2026 Jon Jeter, The Kansas City Defender. Educate! Africa, African Diaspora, Ownership, Privatization

Across the world, from Kenya to the Caribbean to Kansas City, Dar es Salaam to the Dominican Republic to Detroit, Soweto to Sao Paolo to southeast Washington DC, the question persists: why do the sons and daughters of Africa remain poor—either in absolute terms or comparatively–decades after the sun has set on settler colonial rule, chattel slavery, Jim Crow and apartheid? Known as privatization, the sale of publicly owned assets such as utilities, ports, and gas and oil industries, is a big piece of the puzzle. Similar to guns in the 19th century, finance has emerged as a principal tool for extracting wealth from workers– especially those of color– essentially reversing the gains made by liberation movements.

US/Israeli Plans To Destabilize Africa And Asia: Somaliland Recognition

January 12, 2026 Sara Flounders, Workers' World. Educate! Africa, foreign interference, Israel, Somalia, Somaliland

The Israeli state’s aggressive efforts as a proxy for U.S. imperialism continue in its assigned role to destabilize all of West Asia. Increasingly. Israel is also a serious U.S. partner in efforts to fragment and destabilize African countries. This was shown when on Dec. 26 Israel formally recognized the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland. The formal recognition took place only two days before Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure for extensive meetings with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The timing was the clearest signal that the recognition was not just Netanyahu’s unilateral decision.

Africa Voices Outrage Against US Invasion Of Venezuela

January 7, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Resist! Africa, International Solidarity, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The United States’ military invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3, 2026, has led to a wave of sharp condemnation across Africa. Governments, political parties, trade unions, revolutionary movements, and solidarity networks have denounced the action as a flagrant violation of international law, a return to imperial “might makes right”, and a dangerous escalation threatening global peace. From official diplomatic channels in South Africa to socialist parties in Zambia and Tunisia, and from militant trade unions to anti-imperialist platforms across the continent, African voices have responded with unusual clarity and unity.

Pan-African Progressive Front: ‘70% Of Africans Back Reparations’

January 1, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, Colonialism, De-colonization, Reparations

A recent communiqué and continent-wide survey released by the Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) signals a crucial shift in Africa’s reparations movement, moving it from symbolic demands to a coordinated political and institutional agenda. The survey, conducted across all regions of Africa and involving 1,861 respondents from 57 African countries and the diaspora, found that 70.3% of Africans support demanding reparations from former colonial powers, while more than 78% favor an interstate reparations fund under public oversight.

US Airstrike In Nigeria Confirms Why AFRICOM Must Be Shut Down

December 31, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! Africa, AFRICOM, Nigeria, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in the continuity of its neo-colonial structures, with the unrestrained operation of AFRICOM as a graphic example of that dependency. The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unequivocally condemn this veiled act of aggression in the strongest terms.

Forging A Stronger Farmers’ Movement In Tanzania

December 31, 2025 Prasanth R. and Kate Janse Van Rensburg, People's Dispatch. Organize! Africa, Agroecology, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Tanzania

Over 670 farmers gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, on December 4-5 to chart a course for the future of MVIWATA (National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania), one of Africa’s most unique farmers’ organizations. The occasion was MVIWATA’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which serves as the highest democratic platform for members to voice their aspirations for the organization’s future. As the powerful slogan, “Mviwata, Sauti ya Mkulima” (MVIWATA is the voice of the farmer) and “Mtetezi wa Mkulima, Mkulima Mwenyewe” (The defender of the farmer is the farmer), rang through the hall time and again, the farmers debated and arrived at conclusions on strengthening their networks in concrete ways.

Social And Solidarity Economy: African Youth Prepare Initiatives On Continental Scale

December 27, 2025 Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social and Solidarity Economy. Create! Africa, Economic Democracy, Solidarity Economy, Youth Activism

This initiative is part of the international project ‘Regionalisation of the UN resolution on the promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy’, which aims to adapt and operationalise international commitments to the SSE in African contexts. In a continent where young people represent a major demographic force, but also a socio-economic challenge, the social and solidarity economy (SSE) appears to be a structuring response. Based on solidarity, democratic governance, territorial anchoring and inclusion, it is a recognised lever for decent job creation, social innovation and economic resilience.

Alliance Of Sahel States Launches Unified Military Force

December 26, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Organize! Africa, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Military, Sahel region

The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has taken a decisive step toward regional self defense after officially launching a joint military force aimed at combating Islamist insurgency and terrorism across the Sahel. The force was inaugurated on December 20, 2025, during a ceremony held at an air base in Bamako, Mali’s capital. The ceremony was presided over by Mali’s Transitional President, Head of State, Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, and outgoing President of the AES, Army General Assimi Goïta. The event was the formal handover of the Unified Force of the AES banner, marking the operationalization of a long-declared commitment by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to jointly secure their territories’ sovereignty.

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