Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing...
The most pressing challenge facing African Catholicism is how to wean itself from western resources.
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.
“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.
