Laws that prohibit women from inheriting the role of chief have been invalidated in South Africa and Namibia, but not in Lesotho. Senate Masupha is fighting for her right to wield the title hitherto held only by men.

Language is not stagnant but ever evolving. Find New Words is an initiative that seeks to use this ability in the hope of giving LGBTQI+ issues full expression in our African home languages.

Photographer Reatile Moalusi’s latest work seeks to break down some of the myths that still serve to stigmatise people with the auto-immune disease vitiligo.

It is worth considering whether corrupt or ineffective leaders are deliberately fanning the flames of homophobia so that we, the electorate, will lose focus and not hold them to account.

Framing xenophobic violence as a question of immigrant victimisation invites divisions between neighbours.

The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe has partnered with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, an LGBTQI+ advocacy rights group, in an anti-homophobia campaign in schools. The campaign aims to address issues of discrimination in learning institutions and educate teachers on LGBTQI+ issues.

How does the black man who is selfish with his body find pleasure? Where does the selfishness come from? Perhaps his destructive kind of ecstasy contributes to the toxic way he relates with other races.

A Black cis bisexual femme shares her experiences with anxiety disorder, and antidepressant medication, and how the treatment has impacted on her sex life. The medication has had side effects including a lack of sexual desire, orgasmic dysfunction (anorgasmia) and sexual frustration.

Masturbation is natural and healthy and benefits our relationships with ourselves and our partners in more ways than one, says Joyline Maenzanise

Dating in this day and age can be a total nightmare. With so many ways to connect, it can get very confusing – even more so if you are queer. More and more LGBTQI+ people are using the online space to connect. But how convenient and safe is it really?

Sex and pleasure are often so much more than what cis-heteronormativity and even homonormativity teaches. Kgothatso Motshele explores how we can look at our bodies and pleasure through a different lens.

In this open and honest conversation with two women Bel South explores the various faces and forms of queer love from the experiences of two women, and interrogates their subjective realities, living and loving in South Africa.

Under the right conditions marathons could be run in under two hours.

The Constitutional Court judgment is to be applauded for doing away with the assumption that marijuana use by adults in private is always wrong.

Global streaming giant Netflix is injecting an $8 billion original production budget into Nollywood the world’s second largest film industry. This immense win for Nollywood points to the lack of domestic investment in the film industry and the infantilism of it elsewhere on the continent.

The International Day of Democracy celebrated on 15 September, is a time to think about making economic and political opportunities accessible to all. The bourgeoning young population need not be barred from political and economic leadership.

It would be a mistake to ridicule what's been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.

Botswana has been an unparalleled elephant conservation success story. That seems to be changing.

Foreign shop-owners in South Africa are accused of selling counterfeit food and food beyond its sell-by date. These claims are driven by politically charged opinions, not evidence.

The Rwanda Tribunal convicted people for indescribably horrific crimes and some are asking for early release.

Samasource is social enterprise on a mission. Its aim is to reduce global poverty by outsourcing digital work to unemployed people in impoverished countries.

51 years ago, the federal government of Nigeria engaged in a bloody civil war with the secessionist Republic of Biafra. In this exclusive interview with This is Africa, Christopher Ejiofor, a former top military adviser during the war recalls the bitter memories of the war and how they lost everything. He talks about how the British colonial set-up caused the war and the current agitation by the Indigenous Republic of Biafra

Dr Richard Munang is a climate change and development policy expert. Here he talks about his latest book.

Fatou Kandé Senghor is a Senegalese artist and filmmaker. She talks about the pan-African icons of her youth, the icons of Senegalese society, and the difficulties of passing on their lessons to her daughters in the digitalised and globalised 21st century.

Robotics entrepreneur Silas Adekunle features on Forbes magazine’s latest “30 Under 30” list for European Technology for creating the world’s first gaming robot. He is the founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, a company that fuses gaming, robotics and augmented reality.

President Paul Kagame has pardoned prominent opposition figure Victoire Ingabire. It is a move that the Rwandan government claims has no political implications despite Ingabire serving six of a 15-year sentence for conspiring to undermine the government and minimise the 1994 genocide.

Laws that prohibit women from inheriting the role of chief have been invalidated in South Africa and Namibia, but not in Lesotho. Senate Masupha is fighting for her right to wield the title hitherto held only by men.

Kenyan athlete Joseph Kiprono was hit by a car as he was leading the 21km race at the Medellin Flowers Marathon in Colombia. Kiprono was only 1.5km away from the finish line when he was struck.

Tanzania has a population of about 53 million people, of which 70% live below the poverty level, surviving on about US$2 a day. Despite this, President Magufuli has instructed women to do away with birth control interventions, claiming that the country needs more people.

The recent reports on the obscene amounts of ill-gotten wealth in the hands of Equatorial Guinea’s vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, makes one despair over the many leaders who enrich themselves at the cost of their country and its people.