
Zambia’s August 2026 presidential election stands as a vital geopolitical watershed for Southern Africa. Strikingly contrasted against Zimbabwe’s executive overreach...




The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZIDERA) was signed by US president George W. Bush into law in December...

















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.

Prominent Harare bookseller in Zimbabwe Book Fantastics recently had the chance to catch up with Diaspora Dreams Zimbabwean born author Andrew Chatora resident in England.