Africa Will Not Be Digitized Into Dignity
The next development battle will be fought over power, data and consent. Johannesburg, April 2026 Africa is being pulled into a new geopolitical contradiction. At…
South African senior correspondent at Phoenix24, covering African affairs, rights, and digital justice.
The next development battle will be fought over power, data and consent. Johannesburg, April 2026 Africa is being pulled into a new geopolitical contradiction. At…
Johannesburg, September 2025. In a continent where narratives are too often framed from the Global North, African women are asserting themselves at the forefront of…
By Zanele Dlamini, Senior International Correspondent at Phoenix24 Johannesburg, July 2025 —In a township outside Nairobi, a facial recognition system installed to “prevent crime” consistently misidentifies…
In a small village in Katanga, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, men and women dig with their bare hands in search of cobalt. They…
In Johannesburg’s newsrooms, I was taught that geopolitics is decided in marble-carpeted halls. Yet this week, I was reminded that the true map of power…