ROAPE's Peter Dwyer interviews Hakim Adi about African history, Black history, teaching and the campaign to stop the University of Chichester from slashing his ground-breaking Masters by Research (MRes) in African history and the African diaspora.

The Manzese Working Women’s Cooperative, or UWAWAMA, unites women in Tanzania seeking a cooperative alternative to the “slavery” of financial institutions. A recent meeting on International Women’s Day, was a chance for women to unite, organise, and articulate their demands. The women who participated in the day’s discussions summed up their demands for working women in a declaration. ROAPE posts the English translation of the declaration.

Ambreena Manji anaandika kuhusu tishio la serikali ya Tanzania kuwaondoa Wamasai zaidi ya 80,000 kutoka Ngorongoro, mahali pa urithi wa dunia, nchini humo. Serikali inadai kwamba Wamasai lazima waondolewe kwenye ardhi yao kwa maslahi ya hifadhi na ekolojia ya makazi ya wanyamapori. Manji anaeleza nini hasa kinaendelea.

Ambreena Manji writes about the Tanzanian government’s threatened eviction of more than 80,000 Maasai from the Ngorongoro world heritage site in the country. The government claim that the Maasai must be cleared from their land in the interests of conservation and ecology wildlife corridors. Manji writes about what is really going on.

On 24 January in Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was removed from power by the military. Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba took control in a coup. Kaboré had been elected for the first time in 2015 in the wake of a popular uprising. We repost a statement by the major trade union federations in Burkina Faso condemning the coup.