
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




It will continue to be challenging to achieve PanAfricanist goals across Africa unless citizens forcefully demand accountability.














African Crossroads held climate-themed fourth edition, “Ecoexistence: A Manifesto”, held on October 14 and 15, At the end of the two-day conference, African Crossroads unveiled its...

SADC should urgently mediate a dialogue process that’s seen as credible by all parties in the country.

Afrigen will be a technology transfer and training hub: it shares technology and develops skills specifically around how to produce a safe, effective and affordable mRNA...

The fast-rising UK based Zimbabwean writer, Andrew Chatora, has a second novel in the wings. It is set to be released soon on November 30, 2021...

A new book co-authored by Noam Chomsky updates his critique of capitalism with insightful comment on what has allowed the tyranny of the common sense consensus...

Ethiopia’s main religions need to take an emotional distance from politics and find a neutral space so they can get moral clarity.

You can arrest activists, but you cannot arrest the truth: In June 2021, three activists - Rob Callender, Daisy Pearson and Ben Wheeler, also known as...

Moving communities at risk is better than dealing with emergencies, but relocations have a fraught political history in Africa.

Few recent historical figures in South Africa provoke more divergent views than Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk. He was president of the country from 1989 to...

He is the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to lift the Prix Goncourt, one of the book world’s most important prizes. And his win matters.