Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
Formidable Angolan Queen Nzinga will be the first legendary African Matriarch to feature in the upcoming series “African Queens”. Considering Hollywood’s...
By royal decree, Swaziland, one of Africa’s last absolute monarchies, will henceforth be known as the ‘Kingdom of eSwatini’
There is an ongoing culture of killing twins and other infants in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area councils. Christian missionary Steven Olusola Ajayi and his...
The process of institutionalisation may be patchy and uneven. But one thing is clear: Africa is not without functioning institutions.
Efforts to discourage girls from being cut in Tanzania have changed the cultural meaning and practices around the ceremonial rite of passage.
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...
