Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Africa”
From Tennessee whiskey to Caribbean runways, Black excellence once thrived before history scrubbed it clean. The stories of master distiller Nearest Green and Black-owned airlines reveal a pattern of systemic erasure—and a rising movement to restore credit, capital, and cultural truth across generations.
Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces in Namibia carried out the first genocide of the 20th century, killing tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. While Germany continues to pay reparations in Europe, its African victims remain uncompensated. The debt of this forgotten genocide is still unpaid.
By Solomon Desta– InnerKwest Contributor | September 10, 2025 Ethiopia as a Different Kind of Light In the chronicles of world history, few nations stand as firmly outside the tide of conquest and manipulation as Ethiopia. Unlike most of Africa, Ethiopia resisted colonization and preserved its sovereignty in both political and spiritual terms. The Battle of Adwa in 1896 remains …
InnerKwest Ghana Bureau | Published August 24, 2025 From Ouagadougou to Niamey, the leaders of the Sahel Alliance are not asking Africa to adopt new enemies—only to claim its right to choose its own friends. As French media power deepens its hold on African broadcasting, Ibrahim Traoré, Mali, and Niger remind the continent that sovereignty is not a gift; it …
By InnerKwest – Haiti Historian – August 20, 2025 Two hundred years after France forced the world’s first Black republic to pay for its own freedom, Haiti faces a new bill—this time in the currency of sovereignty. In mid-August 2025, Blackwater founder Erik Prince said his new company, Vectus Global, has a 10-year deal with Haiti’s interim authorities: first to fight …
By InnerKwest Editorial-Research Desk • August 16, 2025 Executive Summary Across Africa, sovereignty functions on a spectrum—pulled by foreign military footprints and air operations, hard-currency pegs and IMF programs, port leases and security pacts, and recognition politics. This report maps where external levers are strongest right now and explains how they translate into day-to-day constraints on government choices. Vectors of …
By Guest InnerKwest Contributor: Capetown, South Africa Introduction Orania, a privately owned Afrikaner enclave in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, remains one of the most provocative social experiments in post-apartheid Africa. Founded in 1991 with a mission to preserve Afrikaner culture and language, Orania is often viewed as a form of voluntary segregation. But as the town quietly expands economically …
By InnerKwest Intelligence Desk A Currency Born in Colonization The CFA franc, a vestige of French colonial rule, remains one of the most enduring—and contentious—symbols of European influence in Africa. Created in 1945 by France, the “Franc des Colonies Françaises d’Afrique” was designed to serve as a shared currency for French-ruled territories in West and Central Africa. Today, more than …
📰 INNERKWEST FEATUREIntelligence Desk | InnerKwest.com A UN Move to Africa — But Who Still Holds the Power? The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is relocating a quarter of its New York-based staff to Nairobi, Kenya—a move quietly unfolding with far-reaching implications. While the stated goal is decentralization and cost savings, African observers, sovereignty advocates, and geopolitical analysts are asking …
By InnerKwest Intelligence Desk 🔓 The Walls Were Never Ours Africa stands at a crossroads, once again—this time, not in chains, but in choice. A choice to rise above the invisible fences drawn by foreign rulers over a century ago. The Borderless Africa campaign, spearheaded by Africans Rising, is far more than a political movement. It is a collective act …
