Burkina Faso can do fashion revolutions as well as ideological ones! Black gowns and white wigs – the traditional attire of the country’s court magistrates and clerks since colonial times – are out. Legal-sector officials will now wear a locally-sourced ...

IMPORTANT: Russia’s ICBM launch at Ukraine has triggered early warning systems today and such launches are by default assumed to be nuclear. So for a short moment US and Europe thought Russia is nuking Ukraine. They only knew that it ...

Somair, the Nigerien branch of the French uranium miner Orano suspends uranium mining from October 31 due to its inability to export uranium concentrate, a French media reported. “Somair’s worsening financial difficulties have compelled the company to suspend its operations,” ...

People throw about the term ‘decolonisation’ left, right and centre. University campuses say they’re decolonising curriculums, and corporations – the workplace. But true decolonisation is a question of land, sovereignty and self-determination. Today, three countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, ...

“I cut up and dissolved Lumumba’s body in acid. In the middle of the African night, we started by getting drunk to have courage. We got rid of the bodies. The hardest part was cutting them into pieces with a ...