Muhammad Abdel Karim Ahmed

From Adwa to Ras Tafari’s European tour, Ethiopia’s quest for modernity was bound to empire, expansion, and foreign recognition. These contradictions continue to echo in Abiy Ahmed’s vision of a new renaissance.…

From backing freedom fighters to bureaucratic decline, the African Association’s end marks the fading of Egypt’s liberationist legacy. Geeska spoke with scholars about its fate and Cairo’s Pan-African past.…

Veteran pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist writer Leo Zeilig speaks to Geeska about the conflict in the DRC, self-emancipation, and Africa’s future.…

Professor Hakim Adi, the first professor of the history of African heritage in the UK, speaks to Geeska about Pan-Africanism, Africa’s relationship with China, and his belief in history as a tool for change. Professor Hakim Adi is a prominent British-Nigerian pan-African intellectual and historian.…

Elleni Centime Zeleke was an Ethiopian scholar whose book, Ethiopia in Theory, challenged us to reconsider how we think about knowledge production using the Ethiopian student movement as an example At the beginning of July 2024, African academia lost one of its brightest scholars in…

South Africa and Algeria have relied on diplomatic and judicial activism to end the war in Gaza, but African leaders more widely have distanced themselves from western double standards on human rights Since October 2023, the ongoing war in Gaza has reignited African interest in the…