Maverick Life

Reviving resistance: Graphic novels illuminate heroic struggles against transatlantic slave trade

By Dominic Davies

Op-eds

AU’s ‘Year of Reparations’ for Africans and Afro-descendants should look to the future and the past

By Tadesse Simie Metekia

Op-eds

South Sudan-Ethiopia border communities are key to stopping mass abductions of women and children

By Willis Okumu for ISS Today

South Africa

The Lawless Oceans — forced labour on rust-bucket boats docking at Cape Town harbour

By Don Pinnock and Melissa Marschke

World

From bait to plate – tracking the Chinese fishing ships linked to rights and labour abuses at sea

By Ian Urbina

World

Doing time — ‘The Fraud’ of Zadie Smith

By Mark Heywood

World

Video Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean (Episode 2)

By Ian Urbina

South Africa

‘This is no mystery, we’re making history’: Celebrating the writings of Adam Hochschild

By Mark Heywood

Business Maverick

After the Bell: Now that we’re all going solar, who owns the sunlight again?

By Tim Cohen

South Africa

Lest we forget: Indian indentured labourers of 1860 paved the way for the youth of 2020

By Kaylene Moodley

Maverick Citizen

Deep roots – confronting the history of sexual and other violence against women and girls in Africa

By Lesego Sekhu and Sinqobile Makhathini

Politics

Biden's move on presidential primaries to empower African American voices bends the moral universe, just a little bit

By Phillip van Niekerk