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




The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.

















Cosmetics companies have agreed to remove racially offensive language from their skin products - but history, in Kenya and South Africa, shows they've done the same...

Barbara Gonzalez has no talent for bowing to the inevitable, neither does the word impossible exist in her vocabulary. At just 30, Gonzalez was appointed the...

Two University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers have been selected as finalists for the esteemed Newton Prize 2020.

A forensic archaeologist and former Zimbabwe police officer uses his investigative skills to find the missing and the dead in his homeland.

Detention centres and corrupt coast guards prey on migrants, but the EU continues to support Libyan border authorities.

Most efforts in Africa to date have been financially supported and driven from outside the continent.

Why doesn’t SADC intervene in dire political situations in the same way leaders in West Africa do?

The Horn of Africa is the epicentre of foreign military activity. Foreign troops have been deployed to support peace initiatives, subdue terror groups and support foreign...

Many political issues in the 2020 US election are domestic. But black resistance to white supremacy has long had global repercussions.

Tensions in both countries relating to Ethiopia’s Tigray regional state are hampering progress.