In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week made a high-profile trip to South Africa, another indication of how much Russia...
Queerphobia is the factor that unites most of our African leaders. Be warned – your rights are next, says Joyline Maenzanise
The recently concluded week-long AfrikaBurn festival, an annual event for the past decade, has been described as one of Africa's most unique, unusual and mind-blowing festivals...
President Sirleaf was awarded the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership for her post-conflict consolidation of Liberia’s democracy. In her speech in Kigali, Rwanda...
The protest song "Stimela" remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
The World Press Freedom Index measures the level of media freedom in 180 countries. Nigeria ranked 119 and Ghana, ranked 23 in the world and first...
Rwanda is one of the African countries that is not party to the Rome Statute and President Kagame has criticised the International Criminal Court for being...
Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
Lucara Diamond has discovered a 327-carat diamond at its mine in Botswana, just two weeks after the discovery of a 472-carat diamond this month. The latest...
Female runners with high testosterone must use hormones to reduce those levels or they will not be allowed in international races between 400m and the mile,...
In a surprising development the conservative southern African country of Zimbabwe published a licensing regime that will allow the legal cultivation of marijuana. After Lesotho it...
