
The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.














We celebrate an African icon Julius Nyerere born on this day in 1922. We remember Baba wa Taifa, “Mwalimu” Nyerere and pay homage to this African...

Songs provided motivation and guidance to protesters in Sudan during their uprising against Omar al-Bashir.

Iddris Sandu is the technological virtuoso behind algorithms that made Uber, Instagram and Snapchat what they are now. The software engineer also considers himself a “cultural...

Oliver Mtukudzi is dead but the world has hardly begun to skim the surface of his greatness. In this tribute, Stan Mushava flips through the African...

Al-Bashir's ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three...

Religious sensitivity has always been a difficult issue to navigate, even in the contemporary world. When it comes to the depiction of God, the whitewashing of...

African leaders ignore their youthful population at their peril.

Sudan's academics have been instrumental in bringing regime change and negotiating transitions.

Hip-hop artists in Nigeria unpack the realities of the country's cyber fraudsters.

Sudanese protesters against al-Bashir's regime have scored an important victory. But there's a long way to go before democracy is restored.