Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
His band Zangalewa satirised Cameroon’s military from within - and helped create the football World Cup hit Waka Waka.
Zimbabwe has high hopes for a post-Mugabe era, but it has some serious growing pains to deal with first.
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,...
