DJ Bwakali
Are Most of Africa’s Biggest Countries Too Big to Handle?
Africa’s ten largest countries are Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali, South Africa, and Ethiopia. But these are...
Mali’s War Has Entered a More Dangerous Phase
The war in Mali is no longer a distant northern storm. It is no longer just the story of desert rebels, remote garrisons, and...
Mali Under Attack: The Syria Playbook and France’s Shadow
Mali is no longer facing an ordinary insurgency. It is facing a coordinated attempt to break the confidence of the state, stretch the capacity...
How Ruto’s Kenya Became France’s New Best Friend in Africa
Mombasa, Macron, and the return of an old question
On the morning of March 15, 2026, Mombasa Harbour offered Kenya a scene that looked administrative...
The Well That Changed the World, and the Energy Trap Africa...
By early 1938, Standard Oil of California was close to giving up on Saudi Arabia altogether. Six wells had failed, costs were mounting, and...
Electric Cars for the World, Toxic Air for Congo
For years, the world has looked at Congo and seen war. It has seen M23. It has seen militias. It has seen chaos in...
How a Pan-African Army Defeated Italy in Ethiopia
There is a lazy story we have been trained to repeat.
That Italy lost Ethiopia because “the Allies” arrived, waved a flag, and the occupation...
AFCON Chaos. VAR Drama. How Sadio Mané Led Senegal to a...
Sadio Mané has a habit of stepping into the fire when everyone else is running away from it.
On Sunday 18th January 2026, Senegal’s Africa...
Why Africa Must Accept The Possibility of a Third World War...
In Europe, the people paid to imagine the worst are speaking out loud. NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte, has warned about the risk of...
Is Kenya the Capital of Africa? A Question I First Heard...
The first time I stood in Cairo, in 2005, I was in my twenties and working with the United Nations Environment Programme as the...
