Geo-politicsFrom Nkrumah’s Unfinished Vision to a United Africa
Geo-politicsThe recent announcement by the President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Dr. William Samoei Ruto, concerning a crackdown on foreign nationals operating hawking and small-scale…
Geo-politicsKenya’s Expulsion of Small Traders Exposes Africa’s Unpreparedness for Visa-Free Borders
Geo-politicsA wall map has hung in classrooms across this continent for decades, in Lagos, in Lusaka, in Nairobi, in a thousand rooms nobody bothered to name.
GovernanceBeyond Majority Rule: The Case for Pan-African Democracy
Episode 3Coming soonWho Owns the River?Eleven countries, one river, and a set of colonial-era agreements nobody signed up to. How the Nile basin negotiates water now that the dams are built.Guest to be confirmed · Guest to be confirmed
Episode 2Coming soonThe Constitution Before the BallotA permanent constitution was promised before the country votes. What is actually drafted, who is in the room, and what happens to the December timetable if the text is not ready.Guest to be confirmed · Guest to be confirmed
Episode 1Peace, War and the Search for a Political SolutionDr. Aldo Ajou Deng-Akuey reflects on South Sudan's journey from liberation to independence, the conflicts that followed, and the continuing search for lasting peace.Dr. Aldo Ajou Deng-AkueyListen on
GovernanceCritics versus Supporters of the December 2026 Elections in South Sudan: Why the Democratic Transition Must ProceedThe Republic of South Sudan stands at a critical crossroads in its political history.
Geo-politicsAfrica Must Ask: Why Did the United States Vote Against Correcting the Map?The General Assembly voted 164 to one to draw the world closer to its true proportions. Only Washington objected — and the question Africa should put is not how the vote went, but why it was opposed at all.
GovernanceSouth Sudan at a Critical Moment: Dialogue, Peace, Security and the Political Journey AheadA Public Appeal for Peaceful Dialogue, Democracy and the Rule of LawThe African Continental Unity: The world is definitely changing. The Cold War came in 1945-1991, and went. The USA unipolarity emerged from 1991-2001 (9/11 or so).
The Republic of South Sudan: We need, as South Sudanese, to avoid personal blames and counter blames.
The Republic of South Sudan: Present generation of the 20th and partly early 21st centuries of South Sudanese, were born, brought up and educated in war zones of Southern Sudan or…
The Republic of South Sudan: We are told, fake or true news, that a plan is underway to export Palestinians from Gaza to South Sudan; as settlers or refugees.
The Republic of South Sudan: Nationalism is not a choice, but a righteous obligation. South Sudanese, a resilient society, fought a National liberation together and got…
The Republic of South Sudan: We, the people, and the R-TGoNU, led by the President of the Republic, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, are nationally committed to R-ARCSS; no return to…
In productionSouth SudanThe Land of HopeThe country at fourteen, told by the people who built it and the generation inheriting it, ahead of the first elections in over a decade.
In productionCongoPeople · Resources · TomorrowWho owns what lies under the ground, who decides, and what the arrangement has cost the people living above it.
In developmentBurkina FasoResilience · Culture · ChangeA country that keeps rewriting its own terms, and the artists, farmers and organisers holding the middle of it together.The Nile Festival brings the platform off the page and into the open: a week of culture, sport, fashion, food and music, and the long-term engine that keeps the newsroom independent.
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