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Rising for Palestine
Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation

Edited by Raouf Farrah and Suraya Dadoo

Foreword by Francesca Albanese

A powerful call to global solidarity, uniting African and Palestinian struggles in a shared fight against colonialism, apartheid, and empire

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What does true global solidarity look like, and how can it help us fight for the oppressed? Rising for Palestine is a groundbreaking anthology that reveals the deep ties between some of the world’s most powerful liberation struggles.

For decades, African nations and movements have stood firmly with the Palestinian people. From anti-colonial uprisings and the Pan-African Congress of 1945 to the ongoing fight against Israeli apartheid and Western imperialism, that bond has endured.

Bringing together critical contributions from Palestinian and African scholars, intellectuals and activists, they confront the intertwined histories of genocide, apartheid and colonialism, forces that still cast long shadows over the present. Rising for Palestine is a powerful call to action, engaging with these violent and traumatic histories while exploring new avenues for resistance.

Raouf Farrah is an Algerian writer, researcher and activist. His research focuses on migration and geopolitics in North Africa and the Sahel. He co-founded the Algerian independent media Twala, writes for African and international platforms, and participates in initiatives promoting the rule of law, justice and solidarity in Africa.

Suraya Dadoo is an independent writer and researcher based in South Africa, focusing on African solidarity with Palestine and Israeli diplomacy in Africa. She writes regularly for African media on these issues and is the co-author of Why Israel? The Anatomy of Zionist Apartheid: A South African Perspective.

Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer, specialized in human rights and the Middle East. Since May 2022, she has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. An affiliate scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Albanese is the author of Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020, with Lex Takkenberg) and J’Accuse (Fuoriscena, 2024).

Her academic works cover various aspects of the Question of Palestine, the legal situation in Israel/Palestine, and Palestinian forced displacement. Albanese is responsible for the research and legal assistance programme on migration and asylum seekers in the Arab world for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), and is a co-founder of the Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP), a coalition of prominent regional and international experts and scholars engaged in the issue of Israel/Palestine. She
has worked with various international organizations, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

As Special Rapporteur, she has published numerous legal opinions and several major reports on violation of the law of self-determination in the oPt (2022), the widespread and systematic mass deprivation of liberty of Palestinians (2023), violated childhood in the oPt (2023), and genocide (2024a, 2024b, 2025).

Introduction (Raouf Farrah & Suraya Dadoo)
Part I: Legacies of Violence: Genocide, Colonialism and Oppression
1. Seeing Genocide, ending Genocide (Ariella Aisha Azoulay, USA)
2. Growing up under apartheid and occupation in Namibia (Jephta Nguherimo, Namibia)
3. Shared struggles, shared resistance: Congolese and Palestinian sovereignty in the face of colonialism and extractivism (Kambale Musavuli, DRC)
4. How Many Martyrs Left Until Liberation? (Shad Hammouri, Palestine)
5. Settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide: The UN’s failure in Palestine (Maha Abdallah, Palestine)
Part II: Solidarity and Resistance – Building Shared Struggles
6. Reclaiming Internationalism: Reviving Global South Solidarity in the Palestinian Struggle (Fethi Nimer, Palestine)
7. From apartheid to solidarity: South Africa’s evolving relationship with the Palestinian cause (Sean Jacobs, South Africa)
8. Mobilizing African Institutions: Pathways to Solidarity with Palestine (Saleh Hijazi, Palestine)
9. Balancing solidarity and contradictions: South Africa’s foreign policy on Palestine and Israel (Roshan Dadoo, South Africa)
10. From Mau Mau to Gaza: Kenya’s Long Road to Palestine Solidarity (Zahid Rajan, Kenya)
11. Between the Stones of the Casbahs and Football Stadiums: Palestine at the Heart of the Maghreb (Raouf Farrah, Algeria)
12. Entangled struggles: African and Palestinian peoples’ quest for justice (Abdal Karim Ewaida, Ambassador of Palestine in Côte d’Ivoire)
13. Shared struggles, decolonial visions: Palestinian and Sahrawi paths to self-determination (Malainin Lakhal, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic to the AU, Western Sahara)
14. Hamas, Resistance, and the African Imperative for Solidarity (Basim Naim, Head of International Relations of Hamas) [TBC]
Part III: Africa-Israel Collaboration – Mapping Engagements and Complicity
15. Israel’s shifting alliances in Africa: a settler colonial strategy across three eras (Yotam Gidron, Israel)
16. Religious diplomacy and Christian Zionism in Africa (Suraya Dadoo, South Africa)
17. Occupation by Other Means: Israeli Technologies and the Repression of African Dissent (Author – TBD)
Part IV: Reimagining Liberation – Decolonizing our future
18. Redefining resistance: Decolonizing Terrorism in Africa and Palestine (Amzat Boukary, Benin)
19. Ecocide and Liberation: Palestine at the Heart of Climate Justice (Hamza Hamouchene, Algeria)
20. Decolonizing Media: Gaza, Sudan, and Revolutionary Coverage (Muzan Alneel, Sudan)
21. Our Struggles Are One: Pan-African Feminist Solidarity with Palestine (Rosebell Kagumire, Uganda)
Conclusion (Raouf Farrah and Suraya Dadoo)

Additional information

Publication date: March 2026
Paperback page count: 320
Paperback ISBN: 9780745351902
Paperback dimensions: 140 × 216 mm
Ebook ISBN: 9780745351919