United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the launch of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Serving on it, alongside Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, is millennial digital equality advocate and lobbyist Nanjira Sambuli

Laws in Mauritius allow minors to marry while some cultures on the island are tolerant of child marriage.

Former South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has stirred up a hornet’s nest with a provocative Twitter post questioning why South African, and African women wear Brazilian or Indian hair. “Black consciousness is required on the Hair Question. Why this foreign Hair?” he asked.

Why do LGBTQI+people place pressure on one another to live up to norms and roles established by mainstream patriarchy? asks Joyline Maenzanise.

Zimbabwe is preparing to reintroduce the Literature Bureau to promote the publication of literature in indigenous minority languages.

Mozambique locals are probably the only people unsurprised by the discovery of a hidden rainforest inside Mount Lico that has remained hidden and protected by the volcano’s high walls. This is the second undisturbed rainforest that scientists have recently found in Mozambique thanks to Google Earth.

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.

The different expressions of pleasure through the African body in colonial and post colonial Africa have been strongly regulated and silenced. Before the disruption that was colonialism, there were traditional spaces, both public and private, that allowed for the discussion of sexual matters and the expression of its pleasure. However, African sexual pleasure and dance are now being reclaimed as powerful forms of communication and expression.

What does being a non-monogamous, bisexual woman living in Ghana mean? How do I live out my love life? One woman honestly shares her experiences in this philosophical exploration of what love is, what it can be, how it can be felt or expressed outside the norms of what love has been made to be.

Wairimũ Mũrĩithi writes on womxn’s pleasure (or not) in Kenya’s public imaginary.

A great deal of hope was placed on a few outstanding African players whose abilities did not blossom at the World Cup.

Relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea have improved thanks to efforts made by Ethiopia's new premier.

Young aspirant politicians lack support structure and the money, both of which remain strong factors in deciding politics in Nigeria.

African governments and football associations need to do some serious recalculating for the Qatar world cup in 2022.

The world waits to see if Zimbabwe will pass the democracy test as it holds its first election after Robert Mugabe next month.

Are new talks between Kiir and Machar a sign that regional and global pressure is paying off?

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.

UN Resident Coordinator Siddharth Chatterjee has one of those CVs that will blow you away. Sneak a peek at his Twitter bio and you will see what we are talking about. Ex Indian Special Forces. Ex Red Cross. Princeton alumnus. And a presiding don of the opinion pages at Huffington Post and Reuters. We’re sure you see what we are talking about. He’s a man worth paying attention to. We’re glad he recently spared a few minutes to sit down for an interview with Dr Diana Wangari who brings us the scoop.

“The Facebook post is important because it is instant.” Stella Nyanzi and the making of a social media icon

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún interviews A. Igoni Barrett on the Graywolf Press Africa Prize and the role of literary prizes

When you think of classical music, do you think of names such as Peter Sylvanus or Christian Onyeji? Nigerian classical pianist Echezonachukwu Nduka released his Extended Play (EP) record called Choreowaves, and it's not Beethoven, Mozart or J.S. Bach he's playing. Nduka plays the work of African composers.

Nigeria's Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun is under fire from the media and Nigerians after investigations by a Nigerian publication revealed that she forged her National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) certificate.

American rapper Cardi B’s childhood picture has become a sensational meme. The picture tagged with the phrase "my momma said” has been adopted by many Africans. The hilarious captions capture the gift Africans possess, to laugh at ourselves.

The first phase of the Chinese-built Djibouti International Free Trade Zone (DIFTZ) was launched on 5 July 2018. The project, set to be Africa’s biggest free trade zone, has been commissioned for US$3,5 billion and spans an area of 4 800 hectares.

Kareem Waris Olamilekan, has blown away the world with his hyperrealistic portraits and skilled drawings. Olamilekan is one of the youngest members of a growing community of artists in Lagos who uses this new and ever increasingly popular style.

Ethiopia and Eritrea are putting an end to their volatile relationship, which has affected both countries since 2000, when an uneasy peace deal ended a two-year border war. “A new era of peace and friendship has been ushered [in]", Yemane Gebre Meskel, Eritrea's Information Minister, said on Twitter