
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...




Controversial South African band Die Antwoord illustrates the power relations that make cultural appropriation and blackface so damaging.












The falling price of Internet data and the rise in smartphone use in Africa have opened the door to what is called the Internet Economy. This...

Today Burundi observes Ndadaye Day, commemorating the death of an emblematic figure of the country’s democracy, President Melchior Ndadaye assassinated today in 1993, aged just 40....

The IAAF has announced the shortlist for this year’s World Athlete of the year award. The list of 20 superstars has seven African athletes including South...

Today the people of Mozambique commemorate the anniversary of the death of founding President Samora Machel. Africa pays tribute to Machel, and to celebrate the legacy...

On this day Africa lost one of its most celebrated liberation heroes, a fighter and revolutionary leader, Mozambican President Samora Machel who perished in a fatal...

South Africa has a complex and diverse history regarding LGBT+ rights. Their legal and social status has been influenced by a combination of traditional South African...

We congratulate Zamzam Dahir Mohamud who has made history when she became the first woman elected to represent Galmudug state in Somalia’s new upper house of...

In an initiative to leapfrog infrastructural challenges affecting the delivery of healthcare solutions in parts of Rwanda, the country has launched a drone delivery network to transport...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 has been awarded to American songwriter, and singer Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great...

Today the world remembers the death and celebrates the legacy of an Africa statesman Julius Nyerere, who was the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika,...