Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
A cold-blooded shooting is a common trope in gangsta rap - but a disturbing new development in South African hip-hop.
Zethu Matebeni weighs in on the #RhodesMustFall protest movement, the largest wave of student protests in democratic South Africa.
What makes an African icon? Richard Poplak interrogates Nelson Mandela’s contested legacy in a divided nation.
Climate action is not just about reducing emissions; it can also mean food on people’s tables, money in their pockets and jobs for our youth.
Recent xenophobic and Afrophobic utterances by Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu, two of the leading figures in South Africa’s EFF party, fly in the face of...
An undercover film that was broadcast on the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News about the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica confirmed that the company has worked...
Voluntourists' ability to change systems, alleviate poverty or provide support for vulnerable children is limited. They don't have the skills and can perpetuate patronising and unhelpful...
Instagram supermodel Shudu was an instant sensation, lauded as one of the most beautiful models on the Internet – until the world discovered that she was...
“Expropriation without compensation” is unlikely to speed up land reform. Meanwhile, mass evictions of land occupiers are often from land already owned by the state.
There is so much we can do as individuals to effect a positive change in the lives of women and girl children, says Sarah Nyengerai.
Ethiopia's recent upheavals could potentially destabilise the entire Horn of Africa.
