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




Costa Titch’s death is another blow to South Africa’s music scene which is reeling after several high-profile deaths in recent...














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.

Ailing 82-year-old Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika handed in his resignation on live TV in one of his few public sightings in the last six years. Since...

The hashtags #AlgeriaWakesUp and #SudanUprising have been important signifiers of the fact that Africans as a people are tired of old, ineffective regimes that do not...

Khadambi Asalache, poet and pioneer of modern English Kenyan literature, lived an extraordinary life. Now, more than a decade after his death, the public can view...

Stories about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been evolving as descent narratives telling about journeys through hell.

Law student and human rights activist Mary C. Namagambe is the founder of She for She. This hybrid company is working to tackle the lack of...