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




The G20 is more representative, and African Union membership would provide direct access to the world’s largest players.














Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told her #MeToo story this week during the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality. In her closing keynote speech, Adichie spoke of how she...

Vusi Mahlasela, popularly called "The Voice of South Africa," who was set to be conferred with a honorary doctorate by the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal for...

Not all African leaders are willing to be swept by the democratic reforms of the early 2000s.

The death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was first met with negative headlines by numerous local and global publications. The demonisation of an African woman comes easily to...

Marginalised Namibians should be encouraged to take up cameras to document their lives -- on their own terms.

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has been named one of 12 novels considered “the Greatest Book Ever Written”. The book was named on the list compiled...

The Tanzanian regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, which will govern social media and blogging in that country, has been...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli inaugurated a 24km wall built around the country’s tanzanite mines to prevent the smuggling of the precious stones. Magufuli has made moves...

Meet Jumanne Ngoma, the Tanzanian who discovered the Tanzanite gemstone in 1967 on the foothills of Kilimanjaro. He was recently honoured with $44,000 by Tanzania's President...

President Paul Kagame has not been credited enough with improving the Rwandan health system with the use of drones. Rwanda was the first country in the...