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




Zimbabwean novelist Andrew Chatora is a chronicler of unofficial history and the migrant experience. His debut novella, Diaspora Dreams, was...














The EFF's militarised aesthetic is more than a sideshow. It forms a key part of its spectacle-oriented brand of politics.

Kwame Brathwaite is a documentary photographer who chronicled the cultural, political and social developments of Harlem and co-founded the African Jazz Art Society and Studios. He...

The IAAF in a letter to the World Medical Association (WMA) stated that South Africa's Caster Semenya, a woman, was free to compete as a man...
The community organisation Fatumas Voice will be holding its first Youth Uniting Africa Conference outside of Kenya in June 2019. The goal is to discuss the...

For a continent that did not define its internal borders, Africans are certainly very serious about enforcing these divisions.

The election will not change the government, but may change the balance of power between the two factions of the governing ANC, led by Cyril Ramaphosa...

Freweini Mebrahtu is an Ethiopian chemical engineer who designed and patented a reusable menstrual pad and founded the Mariam Seba Sanitary Products factory where these are...

Women in Sudan have been resisting the controls placed on them for some time - by using their smart phones and social media to trade.

The under-representation of women’s achievements in the mainstream media is a serious problem, which perpetuates gender inequality. Social media can help to address this problem by...

The conversation around the need for Africa as a continent and Africans as a people to have their own media has led to a demand for...