Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
The decision by African ministers of environment to end open waste burning will not only save lives but also open...
The ANC has clocked more than a 100 years and is showing assorted signs of advanced age: arthritic joints, a bent back, a withered visage… Writer...
Just a stone throw away from the cosmopolitan suburb of Sandton City in Johannesburg, the township of Alexandra is still home to some of the poorest...
It’s been almost three decades since the release of the film Coming to America yet some would argue that the depiction of Africa hasn’t changed materially....
More than two decades into our democracy, South Africa has come a long way in creating inclusive spaces for the diverse group of people who live...
Eric Aniva, an HIV-positive Malawian man who confessed that he was paid to have sex with widows and under-age girls has been sentenced to two years...
South Africa was among three African countries which voted to uphold the appointment of an Independent Expert to serve on the United Nation's Human Rights Council....
Tonny Nsubuga has occasionally turned a deaf ear to advisors who often ask him to apply for high-end jobs. As Alex Taremwa writes, ambitious Nsubuga confesses...
Have you heard about Senegal's Mouride brotherhood, which practices a branch of Sufi Islam. Over the weekend, followers of the Mouride faith participated in the annual...
Mohamed Elneny is the first Egyptian to play for Arsenal. Enock Muchinjo charts his chance trajectory to London.
In much of Africa, HIV is no longer the medieval plague it used to be. Which is not to say the virus still doesn’t pose a...
