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




The president’s handling of Malawi’s anti-graft czar raises doubts about his commitment to clean government.














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...

A report by Elephants Without Borders show that the poaching of elephants in Botswana has increased sharply in recent times. This follows certain changes in policy...

About 20 000 children born to Belgian settlers and African women in the 1940s and 1950s were forcibly taken to Belgium until the independence of each...