
In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.




Andrew Chatora’s 2023 novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates land, race and nationhood in Zimbabwe. Literary journalist Onai Mushava picks...

















A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.

A failure to link current and past electoral problems is leading the country down a democratic dead end.

Young Nigerians are protesting bad governance and police brutality. Where is the music to assist them?

The COVID-19 pandemic has directly affected more than 700 000 South Africans, and each patient experienced the virus differently – many paid the ultimate price. While...

With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.

His COVID-19 response has thrown the negative aspects of his presidency into sharp relief.

He's a brooding, taciturn figure, who has dominated Eritrean politics since the 1970s, and there are few signs of an effective challenge to his rule.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has unveiled the OR Tambo commemorative statue to honour the late struggle stalwart Oliver Reginald Tambo.

Restricting trade to control the pandemic damages livelihoods, especially those of the urban poor. The control of future pandemics must strike a balance between health and...

Although the Nigerian government has announced the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, protesters have not let up. They are now calling for wider reforms.