For centuries, the Indian Ocean was one of the world’s great highways of commerce, carrying merchants, scholars, sailors and travellers between Africa, the Middle...
Long before colonial borders carved Africa into modern states, Fulani pastoralists, traders and Islamic scholars moved across the Sahel carrying cattle, commerce and Qur’anic...
For more than a century, Muslims have been taught to view the Caliphate not as a legitimate political institution rooted in normative Islamic tradition,...
America did not come to Africa with mass invasions, but with military bases, drones and partnerships. In many cases, the result has been instability,...
The African Union was created to defend African sovereignty, yet in practice it often finds itself navigating and, at times, accommodating the very forces...