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




Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, his diplomatic uncouth son should stay off Twitter but the outspoken son...














An endangered language is defined as a language that is at a risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to...

Africans delegates were denied visas to attend a trade meeting of the African Global Economic and Development Summit by the U.S. government. The countries affected included...

A pastor in Sierra Leone has unearthed one of the world largest diamonds in the district of Kono. The uncut diamond weighing 706 carats is the...

The conviction of Bala James Ngilari, a former governor of Adamawa state in Nigeria, by the Yola high court, presided over by Justice Nathan Musa, might...

Angolan demonstrators this week took to the streets in a protest in Luanda against a draft law criminalising all abortions. The bill is set to be...

Today is Namibia’s Independence Day. The country attained its freedom in 1990. We honour all those who sacrificed their lives during the struggle against South African...

Veteran South African actor Joe Mafela died in a car accident on the 18th of March, and the nation is mourning the huge loss of a...

Mali is struggling to save priceless cultural artifacts from traffickers who are destroying the country’s most precious cultural heritage. The traffickers who steal, and then sell...

We start this week with heartwarming news, Ghanaian Nancy Abu-Bonsrah becomes the first black female neurosurgery resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Abu-Bonsrah left Ghana at...

St. Lucian poet and playwright, Sir Derek Alton Walcott died today at his home at Cap Estate at the age of 87. The 1992 Nobel laureate...