
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...




Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o emerged with a new era in African history and led the charge to decolonise literature and academic...

















Kenyan startup Taz Technologies, the firm behind digitised mail service technology application MPost, has announced plans to speed up its expansion into the Sub-Saharan region to...

Perceptions of marriage abduction as a recent phenomenon hide the violence that has been done to women as part of culture.

Climate justice and queer rights activism can at first glance seem to exist as separate movements, but further insight shows that they are deeply aligned and...

The region’s securocrats are no doubt unsettled by Hichilema’s decisive action to replace the country’s entire security leadership.

Guineans have experienced military rule before, and they know that the consequences can be dangerous.

A good image abroad affords many advantages to authoritarian leaders.

This Is Africa spoke to Kenyan climate activist, Wanjũhĩ Njoroge about grassroots activism, the implications of complacency, and how gender bias encroaches on even the most...

Deeply concerned by the conflict and deteriorating human security situation in Ethiopia, a number of African intellectuals have called for dialogue and mediation.

The election result was less about Hichilema’s popularity and more an expression of frustration with Lungu’s economic management.

The purpose of a constitutional dismemberment is to unmake and remake the constitution.