Archive of African and Caribbean Politics

Police brutality is endemic in modern Kenya, and a legacy of British colonial rule, write community organisers Gacheke Gachihi and Esther Waigumo Njoki. 

Riots, rebellions and uprisings that have changed the world.

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, leader of the Burkinabè August Revolution which overthrew country’s corrupt military leadership in 1983. In this essay, Amber Murrey reflects on Sankara's legacy, and the ways in which that legacy is remembered via art and music in West Africa.