
A cold-blooded shooting is a common trope in gangsta rap - but a disturbing new development in South African hip-hop.














The ability to give birth is widely touted as a woman’s defining feature. Having children – or wanting them, and how you have them are a...

Meet Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas whose work has contributed to major changes in the Ghanaian society. Anas seeks to name, shame and jail the...

South Africa: Corruption Watch announces project to hold police accountable. The new website will allow people to report police corruption.

The return of South Sudan's opposition leader is likely to solidify the permanent ceasefire.

At birth, humans enter a world that is rife with widely held, fixed and overly generalised beliefs. Regrettably, stereotypes across races, cultures and gender are misconstrued...

Cameroon's Anglophone crisis must be addressed by the president within the first hundred days.

Counting is under way in Madagascar after millions of people cast their ballots. The voter turnout stands at about 40% and so far no major anomalies...

Paul Weinberg is furious that his famous photo of Mandela voting has been linked to institutional racism.

Anti-gay rhetoric has steadily been on the rise in Tanzania since President John Magufuli took office. It is not the rhetoric that citizens need to be...

Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni recently declared, "the head of the home never goes into the kitchen." In 2018, when cooking is a basic life skill,...