Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
For a country that aspires to reduce bureaucracy and liberalise its financial sector, currency redesign and cash withdrawal limits can...
Many leaders before her have sought to make aid spending all about their own agendas – but there's a new element in this case.
How does the black man who is selfish with his body find pleasure? Where does the selfishness come from? Perhaps his destructive kind of ecstasy contributes...
The natural hair movement started as a cause for the liberation of African women and women of colour. It was a bold statement to be unashamedly...
The wigs and robes worn by judges and lawyers in former British colonies are among the most glaring symbols of colonial inheritance; an inheritance so old-fashioned...
The US president's comments about South Africa's land reform stem from his view that whites are under attack from blacks.
The German government has returned 25 of possibly hundreds of Herero and Nama skulls taken from Namibia for examination by racial anthropologists in an attempt to...
South African opposition party EFF leader Julius Malema has called for the adoption of Kiswahili as Africa’s common language. Malema also called for a border-less continent, a common...
The pidgins spoken in the region are unique, showing that they have come to stay no matter what some say or feel about them.
Pseudo-scientific therapies that claim they can “fix” people who experience same-gender attraction have been proven to be ineffective and inhumane. Why, then, are Ghanaian members of...
A research team, led by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, has found pieces of an ancient continent, dubbed “Mauritia”, beneath the African island of Mauritius....
