
Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing...




The leading candidates have mixed records when it comes to accountability and responsive governance.

















Wairimũ Mũrĩithi writes on womxn’s pleasure (or not) in Kenya’s public imaginary.

To understand why women in Africa are less politically represented than men, one needs to look into the history of the continent's gender gap when it...

The annual MTN Bushfire festival in eSwatini is an uplifting vehicle for positive social change, says Zanta Nkumane.

What do Africans really think about having a common language? For many Kiswahili is the answer to having a common language on the continent, but how...

The case of pleasure and sex in Northern Nigeria is not a matter of forced conservatism or a robotic followership to a certain doctrine. It is...

Is kissing unAfrican? Is foreplay unAfrican? These questions speak to ideas which view certain aspects of pleasure and sexuality as foreign. Through fiction, Rafeeat Aliyu says...

More than half of girls in South Sudan are married before the age of 18. Endemic conflict and food shortages are only exacerbating the problem.

I am here, and my pleasure matters. Motlatsi Motseoile explores the intricacies of sex in gay relationships, and how being a bottom is often mired in...

Ivorian hair artist, Laetitia Ky has used her hair to speak out on rape, sexual assault and harassment. She shaped her hair to speak on the...

For Ethiopia, there is no connection between the Maqdala war in 1868 and the stolen treasures at Maqdala