
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




Senegal marked 20 years of innovative fashion by displaying 20 designers from all over Africa, including Angola, Morocco, Mali, Mozambique,...














Senegalese musician Akon has started his own cryptocurrency Akoin to compete with bitcoin. Akon intends to go beyond just creating a cryptocurrency, and he also wants...

2018 is the 18th year of the World Refugee Day event, run by the United Nations Refugee Agency as a declaration that the world supports and...

Wider access to technology has increased possibilities to share stories via digital means.

Ozwald Boateng unveiled his new 'Africanism' collection at Arise Fashion Week in April 2018. “I wanted to push that connection between my cultural roots and my...

Women don't want to be reduced to ceremonial roles; they believe they can add value in making decisions.

Women now make up a sizeable share of football audiences, but unless decked out in short shorts and cropped jerseys, they are barely visible in the...

Brian Gitta, a 24-year-old Ugandan software engineer and the 2018 winner of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, proved that solutions can come from personal experience...

The recent appointment of Siyamthanda Kolisi as the first black captain of the Springboks after 127 years, 478 tests and 60 white captains in South African...

Nthabeleng Likotsi is on course to establish the first black women-owned bank in South Africa. Her aim is for the bank to empower black female entrepreneurs...

The football world cup offers a useful chance to consider the apparent division between North and sub-Saharan Africa.