His band Zangalewa satirised Cameroon’s military from within - and helped create the football World Cup hit Waka Waka.
East Africa has become a fixture on the calendar of festival tourists from across the globe. While this is to be welcomed, it also offers challenges...
Zimbabwean editor and publisher Ellah Wakatama has been appointed as the new chairperson of Africa’s richest literary prize.
African penguins, known for their irregular markings and loud call, are in sharp decline. The species has gone from a population of more than a million...
After first blaming the pilot of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302, Boeing has publicly accepted responsibility for the error that caused the crash.
Senegalese-born media advisor Sibeth Ndiaye, who was French President Emmanuel Macron’s communications advisor for his presidential campaign, has been appointed as the spokeswoman for the French...
By now it is common knowledge that products marketed to women cost more. In some cases they cost multiple times more than the exact same products...
Award-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o is adding the title of author to her growing résumé. The actress is set to release a children’s book that focuses...
Police slogans are one of my favourite sources of reading material. Maybe it is because of their inherent contradictions – it is as if they are...
There is no better place to gauge the change that is happening in Cameroon than the 2019 edition of the nation’s leading award for entertainment, the...
Niger’s top court has outlawed ‘”Wahaya”, a unique form of slavery currently practiced in that country. It involves the sale of young girls from Tuareg communities...
