April 17 is a day that reminds us that the Burkinabé, African, and international peasantry must be the heartbeat of livelihoods in our communities and must therefore be at the center of the claims being made to sovereignty.

On the African continent, the question of sovereignty is not a populist watchword. It is the defining question of the moment.

The devastating impact of Trump’s tariffs on Lesotho prompted the government to declare a “state of disaster”, Alasow Ghedi argues, the economic crisis is a “violent outcome of a 150-year process that systematically eroded Lesotho’s economic sovereignty”.

On the anniversary of Thomas Sankara coming to power in Burkina Faso, Jonis Ghedi Alasow reflects on how his legacy lives on in new Sahelian revolutions today

African Liberation Day was established to honor the anti-colonial struggles of the African peoples and nations for independence, a fight which continues today with different contours

La Ley de Expropiación de Sudáfrica ha provocado un debate en el país sobre el persistente modelo racista de tenencia de la tierra en el país, además de haber desatado una disputa diplomática con Estados Unidos.

The Arusha Declaration, published on 5 February 1967, was an aspirational document. Much like South Africa’s 1955 Freedom Charter, it did not describe the world as it existed. Instead, it attempted to articulate the goal of our collective struggle for complete and genuine freedom.

South Africa’s Expropriation Act has provoked debate within the country over the enduring racist land tenure model in the country, and has also sparked a diplomatic row with the United States.

In Palestine and across the African continent, national liberation from colonialism is incomplete without sovereignty over the land

The movement which is also commemorating its 30th anniversary fights for the dignity and unity of the peasantry in Tanzania in the face of neoliberalism