![People stand around the body of a 12-year old boy allegedly shot by taxi drivers outside Chris Hanni Mall in Vosloorus, on July 14, 2021 [AFP/Guillem Sarorio]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9EY9ZZ.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The ANC has failed to dismantle apartheid’s economic structures and as a result, people are losing faith in democracy.
![Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt, Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia stand for a group photo during the opening of the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 10, 2019. [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1cf8e513cedc4657b1fa5c92270a5c2e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
It’s time for the AU to return to its anti-colonial roots, and adopt substantial measures against Israel.
![LGBTQ Africans deserve to enjoy the rights and freedoms enshrined in the African Charter on Human Rights just like cis-gender heterosexual Africans, writes Mhaka [Alex Grimm/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-668920898.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
South Africa should take the lead in the fight against homophobic hate crimes on the continent.
![A demonstrator paints 'End Sars', referring to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad police unit, on a street during a protest demanding police reform in Lagos, Nigeria October 20, 2020. [Seun Sanni/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RTX83NR9.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Social media regulations in Africa are not fighting hate speech and disinformation.
![Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Chase Center July 14, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. [Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/56b02f5e2f85422ba79033607df87a5f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The moral and righteous America Biden is promising to bring back never existed in the first place.
![Corn fields are harvested at Ivordale Farm on August 1, 2018 outside Harare, Zimbabwe [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a7e8a53c8b7641b2b72636500d92b245_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Britain, not Zimbabwe, must pay for colonial land grabs.
![Zimbabwean police and army roundup people at a checkpoint in the country's capital, Harare, ahead of planned anti-government protests, July, 30, 2020 [AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/78578b2087174d27a2b2b10a9e8b2366_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
If it cannot address systematic human rights abuses on the continent, what really is the purpose of the African Union?
![Nothing the BBC publishes can ever silence the voices that are demanding the UK to have a long overdue reckoning with its brutal history, writes Mhaki [Carl Court/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/76edc205331e4fb0a3836c4edbd76ac0_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Why did the BBC publish an article glorifying a 19th-Century Nigerian slave trader amid global BLM protests?
![Unfortunately for Britain, like Donald Trump, Prime Minister Boris Johnson prefers to view the world through the restrictive prism of conservative white privilege [Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/05420d9b4ac54245887590db7eb4aa9f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Like Trump, Johnson prefers to view the world through the restrictive prism of conservative white privilege.
![Police in riot gear prepare to advance on protesters rallying after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, US on May 30, 2020 [AP/John Minchillo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/a9a8d04e1a084b39aea5c6f5e7a77769_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
George Floyd’s death demonstrates just how little America cares about Black lives at home and abroad.