
The geopolitical crises of 2026—from the devastating US-Israeli war on Iran to the conflict in Ukraine and Africa’s scramble for...




Rich in resources but largely unrecognised, those in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic eke out a livelihood under harsh conditions.

















The Emerging Scholar Award is part of Facebook’s ongoing commitment to identifying promising doctoral students and supporting them and their research throughout their careers. 25 year...

Nigeria is a big footballing nation. After decades of mismanagement, its football governing body finally took a ‘big business’ approach to reforming the country’s premier league....

Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Germany produced Africa’s first solar-powered electric 4x4 automobile...

South Africa held a consultative Indaba on The Draft National Policy Framework on Sanitary Dignity that looks to provide free sanitary towels for young women and...

The #African continent has many talented people who have been able to bring about #innovative solutions to some of the continent’s most pressing issues, among them...

Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor is a writer of color joining the blockbuster fantasy franchises as HBO is developing a series adaptation of her post-apocalyptic Africa novel...

Today an African literary giant Prof Wole Soyinka celebrates his birthday. Soyinka is considered one of the foremost African poetry, and prose writers. He was awarded...

In 1986, Soyinka was 52 years old and had just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today Africa's first Nobel laureate turns 84. The playwright, poet,...

The success of the recent sit-at-home protests by pro-Biafran secessionist groups in South-East Nigeria is an indication that the issues that led to the civil war...

We have a secret in our culture, it's not that birth is painful it is merely that women are strong. The belief that women are strong...