
Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing...




Outspoken, astute and sometimes controversial, he transcended the role of talk radio host to become a public intellectual.

















Rwanda has followed Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa in cracking down on skin bleaching products that contain chemicals like hydroquinone and mercury, which have...

Masiphumelele High School (Cape Town), teen will begin studying mechanical engineering at University of Cape Town (UCT) this year.

Women entrepreneurs in Africa struggle to obtain credit, and to access entrepreneurship education.

Too many African countries believe Beijing when they are told in negotiations that they must take it or leave it.

Creating a connection with his deaf niece motivated 25-year-old Kenyan innovator Roy Allela to invent a set of smart gloves, named Sign-IO, which converts sign language...

Moussa Faki Mahamat, AU Commission Chairperson revealed the AU will in February present specific details on the production and issuance of the African passport, which will...

Big investors seem to be mainly interested in Nollywood's already established popularity with African audiences.

The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon's thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.

When a deputy headmaster at one of Zimbabwe’s top schools recently came out as gay, he faced a backlash that revealed a deep-seated homophobia. One Zimbabwean...

A conference in Accra, Ghana, revisited the 1958 All African People’s Conference, under the banner of “The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation”. The legendary convenor...