
A commanding presence on the global literary stage, Ama Ata Aidoo was a powerful feminist voice with a prolific output.














Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and...

Nigeria's border closure is a panicked reaction which violates ECOWAS protocol.

Ethiopia’s 40-acre Imperial Palace compound that has housed the country's leaders and the troops for over a century has remained shrouded from the public since its...

Africa accounts for 15% of the global population and 25% of the global disease burden, yet the discovery and development of medicines that end up in...

Italian club AS Roma launched a Kiswahili Twitter account and many in East Africa and across Africa are loving it. The club is the first major...

The second project from The Artists Xchange, ‘Floating and Flying’ features a collaboration among Kenyan artists Margy Modo from Karamoja, Elizabeth Korikel from Turkana and Chebet...

Today we commemorate the death of an African Reggae legend #LuckyDube who was shot and killed during a hijack in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2007. We...

If the ruling party is defeated next week, will the country lose its reputation for regional stability?

The Zimbabwe Industrial Hemp Trust (ZIHT) has planted the country’s first authorised hemp crop at a prison in Harare in the wake of the government legalising...

Despite adopting the Malabo Protocol five years ago, efforts by African states to establish the court have stalled.