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




The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.














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...

African sci-fi legend Nigerian Nnedi Okorafor and Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu are teaming up with Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis for an upcoming series adaptation of Octavia...

Not for the first time, Kenya is discussing the possibility of amending the Sexual Offences Act to lower the age of consent from 18 to 16...