Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
Momentum is growing for the restitution of objects, such as the Benin Bronzes, stolen during colonialism. Listen to The Conversation...
Nude photography that explores body types and sexualities may not just be met with silent hostility in East Africa; historically, it has been met with resistance....
The AU Commission chairperson steps down this month, leaving behind a mixed bag of failures and successes.
In Borno, Nigeria, where the radical sect Boko Haram has masterminded a campaign of terror for almost a decade, the real estate sector is showing a...
Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta one of the most popular and celebrated African writers has died at the age of 72 in London. The Nigerian novelist based...
Last week, Yahya Jammeh boarded a private jet leaving The Gambia after 22 years at the helm of the small West African country. Jammeh’s departure came...
Here are 10 memorable quotes, and excerpts from the works of a great African literary giant, Buchi Emecheta. Emecheta was greatly respected and admired for her...
Ahead of a gathering of (grey) heads of state later this month at the first African Union Summit for 2017, Levi Kabwato remembers Mohamed Bouazizi, reflects...
The situation in Burundi is still deteriorating, and could lead to genocide, civil war or regional conflict. So where does Burundi go from here? The options...
What lofty and enduring dream could sprout in us when we have become accustomed to squalor, habituated to decrepitude, made our peace with detritus? What hope...
In a world where nothing is for free, Tiffany Kagure Mugo asks, why are hard-working activists, especially women, still asked to give of their time and...
