Interventions against intimate partner violence may work better if they target the mechanisms that make empathic women more vulnerable.
A five-year-old girl with albinism Djeneba Diarra was beheaded in a suspected ritual murder for her body parts in Mali. Her murder has caused an outrage...
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
Are the new International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF's) “Female Classification” regulations targeting Africans specifically? asks Enock Muchinjo
The Uganda Revenue Authority recently proposed taxing Bibles, Qu’rans, prayer and hymn books imported into the country. The revenue authority has since backtracked on the proposal following a...
It is crucial that we increase women’s participation in political and decision-making structures, from grassroots level and up, says Blessing Vava.
Illustrious South African photographer Sam Nzima, known for his iconic Hector Pieterson picture taken during the Soweto uprisings in 1976, has died at the age of...
A special event was hosted by Rhodes University in Johannesburg in honour of singer Yvonne Chaka-Chaka and Justice Dikgang Moseneke at the university’s 114th graduation ceremony.
The Caine Prize for African Writing has released the 2018 shortlist. The prize awards the best short story by an African writer in the English language....
We found that even when women own land, their husbands are still perceived as household heads.
The South African government says it will continue to enforce immigration legislation with “full might of the law” and “no respite”.
