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




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














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...

Dehlia Umunna, deputy director and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute, is the first Nigerian to be appointed as a professor at Harvard...

Victims of latest xenophobic violence blame electioneering by politicians.

Getting accepted at your university of choice is one of the best things that can happen to a student. Jeramy Botwe is a 17-year-old Ghanaian who...

Many Africans grew up with the BBC and CNN as their sources of information. In fact, these stations remain the main news source for a lot...

There is a groundswell of criticism from Africans about the bias in reporting of events on the continent, but is there a commitment to do it...