In over 30 countries LGBTIQ+ people would face imprisonment. Progress has been made but there is still a long way...
Africans Rising Coordinator Hardi Yakubu explains the methods and motivations of the Borderless Africa campaign to This Is Africa. This...
It’s a near certainty that Kagame will be here for some time to come; but as Rwanda looks to the future, it may need or indeed...
The Ukraine war elevated US interest in Africa, but the real global contest is with Beijing rather than Moscow.
The proposed law reinforces unscientific conversion practices – or so-called reparative therapies – that don’t work.
Paradzai Mesi is the lone wolf who howls for the pack just to keep it visibly out of play. Sungura guitarists were family prefects, lending their...
The call for reparations asks for a totalising of the forces that enacted the stealing of bodies, minds and souls. Reparations is anticapitalist politics because its...
Kenya is at a historic juncture – historical but not decisive. Food prices are at an all-time high and unemployment is the middle name of more...
Paradzai Mesi holds his floor among the great Zimbabwean artists. Perennial underdog in a 2000s sungura school headlined by Alick Macheso and Tongai Moyo, his unique...
The Ugandan orphans stole headlines after performing on Britain’s Got Talent - but have been an internet sensation for years.
William Ruto’s and Rigathi Gachagua’s campaign was built on the condition of the common Kenyan or the “hustler”, but their government has proved to be hardly...
Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.