
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...




Novelist Petina Gappah’s call for translators on Facebook has resulted in the publication of Chimurenga Chemhuka.














The unstable authoritarian pathway that many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements within African societies.

Lual Mayen is a former refugee who is using his past to create social-impact gaming through his company Junub Games. His latest product ‘Salaam’ is a...

Court order against protesters outside UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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...