Zambia’s election reveals a new democratic battleground: the smartphone. From fake results and premature victory claims to algorithm-driven misinformation and...
Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce...
If the MDC-Alliance claims Zanu-PF and Zimbabwe's electoral commission rigged the elections, the onus is on them to prove it.
With National Women’s Day approaching and August being Women’s Month, the women of South Africa have chosen an auspicious time to take to the streets to...
After 13 years of working with CNN, Sierra Leonean journalist Isha Isatu Sesay has left. At a time when stories from the continent are under-reported Isha...
Togo illustrates the difficulty of moving away from personalised politics.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is taking over from Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe as the new chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
The 2018 Mali election is set to go into a run-off after the main opposition candidate, Soumaila Cisse, stated that the “incumbent president can’t win in...
Nigerian author Teju Cole recently spoke about his work in a reading at Jazzhole, a bookshop in Lagos. Cole read an essay from Granta Magazine and...
The free movement of people between African countries could facilitate economic development.
Zimbabwe is holding its first election in almost four decades that does not have the former president, Robert Mugabe, on the ballot. A turn-out of 75...
Wits University, one of Africa’s top five institutions of higher learning, is regularly at the forefront of progressive changes. In its drive for inclusivity, the university...
