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




After 24 years of democracy, women still struggle for political relevance in Nigeria - limited by poverty, corruption and other...














Many countries have abolished the death penalty because absolute judgments are not only irreversible but inhumane. Although progress has been made against the death penalty, with...

The time for fundamental political reforms in Sudan is now with the end of al-Bashir's rule.

The fact that al-Bashir has been deposed will again raise questions about the former Sudanese president facing trial at the ICC.

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.