
Singapore built its anti-corruption success by engineering honesty as the rational choice—through ironclad anti-corruption laws, fearsome enforcement by an independent...




Burkina Faso looks to be the latest west African state where Russian influence is on the rise.










Last year, 19 year-old Besa Mumba, became Zambia’s youngest commercial pilot, an achievement which was widely celebrated across the continent. Fast-forward six months, Zambia is celebrating...

On a study tour in faraway Estonia, veteran Kenyan journalist Wycliffe Muga finds familiar parallels between the Eastern European country's mythical hero "Kalevipoeg" and "Gor Mahia",...

When poor Kenyans need help, whether because a family member has been raped in one of Nairobi’s sprawling slums or someone they know disappeared after an...

Kenya’s civil society has faced a myriad of challenges but it has grown resilient and vibrant over the decades. Njeri Kabeberi explores the role of the...

An interview with Eze Onyekpere the director of the Centre for Social exploring the shrinking spaces for Nigerian civil society?

From undemocratic laws to violence, Brendan Boyle explores how South Africa’s mine-hosting communities continue to be silenced by mining companies operating in the country’s former homelands.

An interview with Chumile Sali, an activist with the Social Justice Coalition (SJC), a mass member-based social movement on state-civil society relations in South Africa

Since the Marikana massacre in 2012, several journalists, academics and media commentators have argued that South Africa is reverting to a repressive state. Could South Africa...

Zimbabwe's governing Zanu-PF party has confirmed President Robert Mugabe as its candidate for the 2018 polls. President Mugabe who will be 94 in 2018 has showed...

Stephen Bantu Biko the anti-apartheid activist and leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, is born in 1946 in Ginsberg Township, in the present-day...