
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




An interview with Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey.












In Cameroon, it is not uncommon to spend days waiting for incompetent public officials to sign and issue documents. Files often go missing, forcing one to...

Rita Nketiah, a second-generation Ghanaian immigrant, has recently returned to the country of her birth. She has found that coming home is not an event but...

Over the centuries, wherever Africans went, their music travelled with them, leaving an indelible mark on the cultures and peoples they interacted with. From the 1950s...

In the pursuit of being ‘good sexual partners’ for men, many women abuse their vaginas. At best, the measures they resort to add little to their...

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced a policy that gives incentives to whistleblowers who provide information that ultimately results in the recovery of looted money...

Today we reveal the beauty of Draa Valley between the Atlas Mountains and the dunes of the Sahara. It is said to be one of Morocco’s...

Women, health and human rights organizations dismayed by law commission’s backward recommendation.

Andela – the Nigerian-based innovative software training company which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has invested $24-million in and that already operates in Nigeria and Kenya –...

South African president Jacob Zuma appointed Justice Mandisa Maya as the first woman President of the Supreme Court of Appeal since the court's existence in 1910....

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has made headlines again, and it's all for good reasons. After being conferred with an honorary degree from Haverford College in the middle...