
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...




Zimbabwean novelist Andrew Chatora is a chronicler of unofficial history and the migrant experience. His debut novella, Diaspora Dreams, was...

















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.

Today we celebrate the Day of the African Child with our selection of 10 young adults and children doing remarkable work across the continent.

The persistence of Sam Nzima's June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that...

Cartoon Network Africa has launched a new initiative called “Creative Lab” to solicit local short-form animated content for and from people living in Africa. The initiative...

Sex and pleasure are often so much more than what cis-heteronormativity and even homonormativity teaches. Kgothatso Motshele explores how we can look at our bodies and...

In this open and honest conversation with two women Bel South explores the various faces and forms of queer love from the experiences of two women,...

Despite them living for up to 2,500 years, researchers have discovered several baobab trees in Africa have died. Aida Cuni Sanchez on why these trees have...