
In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.




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

















It would be a mistake to ridicule what's been achieved in the Horn of Africa, but obstacles remain.

The Ugandan legislator Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, recently revealed that he is willing to die in the attempt to gain freedom for Uganda....

Missionaries have flocked to Africa for more than a century. Some had a lasting impact for the better on the communities they served. Dame Rosalind Colwell...

It is worth considering whether corrupt or ineffective leaders are deliberately fanning the flames of homophobia so that we, the electorate, will lose focus and not...

Tennis player Naomi Osaka beat 23-times Grand Slam winner Serena Williams in a 6-2, 6-4 win in the US Open. But the reporting of her victory...

Framing xenophobic violence as a question of immigrant victimisation invites divisions between neighbours.

Botswana has been an unparalleled elephant conservation success story. That seems to be changing.

Due to China’s investments in Kenya, this growing link has an estimated 10 000 Chinese nationals living in the East African country. Unfortunately there have been...

Special dispensation was meant to regularise undocumented Zimbabweans living in South Africa, but left many undocumented for years.

Despite all Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed's inspirational reforms, there can be no progress without the rural majority.