Vol 67 No 10 | SOUTH AFRICAUNITED STATESBRITAIN The battle for Mandela’s legacy returns to screen 1st May 2026 Two western media companies are launching duelling documentaries on the liberation leader and his family A seven-part documentary series produced by Netflix, the United States-based film and television streaming service, The Trials of Winnie Mandela, which examines the complex legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela,...
DISPATCHES Vol 67 No 7 | UNITED STATESAFRICABRITAIN Jumbled signals from western broadcasters to Africa 23rd March 2026 Whitehall is eviscerating aid budgets but differs with Washington over cash for radio stations and soft power Washington’s Voice of America radio station will be back on air in dozens of African countries following a court ruling outlawing attempts by the Trump administration to shut... READ FOR FREE
Vol 67 No 7 | GHANAAFRICAN UNIONBRITAIN Win-win or spin-spin 3rd April 2026 The soft launch for Neofingo, a ‘Ghana-Britain digital trade finance corridor’, by a public and non-profit consortium on 28 March championed a new way to cut through the...
Vol 67 No 6 | NIGERIABRITAIN Tinubu hollows out the opposition 20th March 2026 With rivals co-opted, detained or outmanoeuvred, and a new electoral law, the President has engineered near-total political dominance When they meet Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 18-19 March state visit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III at Windsor Castle, some politicians in the ruling...
Vol 67 No 4 | NIGERIAFRANCEBRITAIN Britain plays the King 20th February 2026 Abuja is spinning President Tinubu’s stay in the Palace – and warmer ties with the British government – as part of a reset of bilateral relations On the back foot since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made France the centrepiece of his foreign policy, Britain is trying to restore its waning relationship with Nigeria. To...
DISPATCHES Vol 67 No 1 | ZIMBABWEBRITAIN Ghosts of Mugabe are haunting Whitehall 5th January 2026 As US regime change tactics spark debate, British plans in Zimbabwe come under scrutiny At the height of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s ‘War on Terror’ in 2004, British officials mulled whether a military operation could depose the ‘depressingly fit’ Zimbabwean President Robert... READ FOR FREE