
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




A scholar of politics and religion explains how anti-LGBTQ laws are being used to distract the public from governance failures...














In Libya, a lack of authority has allowed the ongoing kidnapping and extortion of migrants. What can European countries do to prevent the murder and torture...

How do you sense your city in relation to taste, smell, sight, touch and hearing? African Crossroads 2019 seeks to explore the various experiences Africans have...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari shut his country's border with neighbouring countries: Benin Republic and Niger, but Nigerian businesses are bearing the brunt of the closure which...

The world’s first physical vagina museum has been opened in London to educate and inform people about gynaecological anatomy while providing a space in which to...

France has returned to Senegal for a period of five years a sword which belonged to 19th Century Islamic and anti-colonial leader Omar Saidou Tall. Senegal’s...

Art, outreach and fieldwork can help reframe Britain's imperial past, by re-humanising the people subjected to anthropological 'colonial science'.

Luyanda Botha the South African man who raped and killed University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana will serve three life sentences for the rape and...

The Gambia successfully filed a case at the International Court of Justice on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation that accuses Myanmar of a genocide...

Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali is the first African and second woman to win the Prix Pictet. Her series Ça va aller (It will be OK) is...

Marking the end of the Cold War offers the chance to reflect on the changes and continuities in African politics and international relations since 1989.