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




Sungu Oyoo sat down with Muhamad Lamin Saidykhan and Coumba Toure, co-ordinators of the Africans Rising movement for Justice, Peace...














Percy Maimela is one of South Africa's talented artists making waves. The 32 year-old artist whose portrait of Joe Mafela, which he created with salt went...

Greetings from Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain on earth. It has three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira". The...

Six aid workers were ambushed and killed in South Sudan last week. The aid workers were travelling from the country’s capital, Juba to Pibor. The victims...

Today we visit Fort Jesus in Mombasa, built by the Portuguese in the 16th century. Fort Jesus is now a popular destination for foreign and local...

Ghana recently celebrated its independence, attained on 6 March, 1957. We share captivating pictures taken at the Black Star Square during the 60th independence anniversary parade.

The idea of the Black Girls Magazine was born after Annette Bazira-Okafor, a Ugandan mother living in Canada realized that the magazines her daughters and her...

Ahmed Kathrada, a South African struggle stalwart has passed on. Kathrada was among the eight accused, who were sentenced to life imprisonment during the Rivonia Trial...

South Africa has lost a liberation hero with the passing of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada, aged 87. Affectionately known as Kathy, Kathrada was a Robben...

Today we celebrate South African 31 year old Nandi Zama, who has become the first black woman commander of a military cargo plane in the South...

An “Arts and Culture for Better Planet” NAAM Festival is seeking to save Lake Victoria from pollution and depletion by the riparian communities, through photo exhibitions....