On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Khamenei. Iran retaliated with missiles,...
Zimbabwe cricket legend Dave Houghton is in charge of the Chevrons for the second time. His golden-age aura has rubbed...
In Nigeria, it’s not only whistle-blowers that get rewarded. A security guard Ibrahim Mohammed Ogbanago working for the United Bank for Africa (UBA) found $10,000 dropped...
A 37-year-old Ugandan woman, living in Kabimbiri village, Mukono District, outside Kampala, Mariam Nabatanzi has given birth to 38 children. The children include six sets of...
The revolutionary idea of Negritude turns 82 this year and the ‘trois pères’ of the movement, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas, will be...
Nigeria's Romeo Oriogun was announced the winner of the The Brunel International African Poetry Prize, in a unanimous decision by the judges. Oriogun received £3,000. Romeo's...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli last week fired almost 10 000 civil servants because they had forged their educational qualifications. Magufuli reportedly said the vacant posts would...
Omoakhuana Anthonia once remarked that, “The greatest purpose in life, the greatest achievement one could ever have in life, the greatest satisfaction one could ever get...
The severity of former Nigerian President Umaru Yar’adua’s illness was the subject of great speculation and the cause of much uncertainty until he died in May...
Zimbabwe’s 6-day annual arts festival starts Tuesday May 2017, and boasts eclectic lineup promising to be the best Harare International Festival of the Arts to date.
In Uganda, Lake Bunyonyi and Lake Mutanda had islands referred to as akampene or Punishment Islands for unmarried girls who fell pregnant. Almost a century ago,...
With the tattoo of the African continent and Nigeria mapped out on his right shoulder, the Nigerian-British boxer Anthony Joshua who lays heavy claims to his...
