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




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














Infant commodification and human trafficking are on the rise in many African countries. One avenue for human trafficking of this kind are 'baby factories' where women...

A BBC documentary titled ‘Sex for Grades’ has exposed the extent of systematic sexual abuse against female students in West African universities. Although cases have been...

Foreign intervention has brought drones, cyber-attacks and social media propaganda that foreshadow the future of armed conflict.

President Paul Kagame's vision to put Rwanda and Made in Rwanda products on the global market has led to the country producing Africa's first smartphones. The...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari who was on a state visit to South Africa described the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa as an "embarrassment to the...

Do Africans know the truth about the intention of the West in Libya? Why did Colonel Muammar Gaddafi have to go? Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi's former spokesman...

Nigerian professor of neurosurgery and spinal surgery, Dr. Olawale Sulaiman divides his time between the US and Nigeria to provide affordable and often free healthcare in...

Rwanda's government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.

No one knows with confidence how many small-scale cannabis farmers there are in South Africa, but the number is large: one organisation estimates 900,000. Millions of...

In Sudan, where a women’s football is religiously banned, Salma Al-Majidi beat the odds to become the first Arab and Sudanese woman to coach men’s football...