Andrew Chatora’s 2023 novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates land, race and nationhood in Zimbabwe. Literary journalist Onai Mushava picks...
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.
“If there is no drastic change we won’t be able to farm with cattle and maize in a few years time”
Benin’s new abortion law will take a woman’s educational, professional and material situation into consideration.
In six rural communities in Nigeria, residents were for the first time connected to electricity following the launch of six solar minigrids. This development, a partnership...
None of the Above is arguably the winner of South Africa’s 2021 local election.
Turnout was low. But not equally so across the board. Patterns show it was not a statement by all voters – it was a message from...
Jazz star Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has turned 70. In 50 years, his music career has come to help define South African politics and popular culture.
I Am Samuel is a documentary about life, love, and acceptance, focusing on the struggles of a gay man living in Kenya, a country that criminalises...
Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
