
Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing...




COP27 is being held in Egypt from 6th to 18th November 2022. This year it seeks renewed solidarity between countries...
















After every seismic shift in the global world order, the eternal question of what does this mean for Africa is always asked. Levi Kabwato thinks that...

Today we celebrate a remarkable story, the election of Ilhan Omar as the first Somali-American legislator in the U.S. The former refugee who fled the Somali...

It isn’t every day that you see a red-haired woman with freckles on major international adverts. Well, Cape Town-born model Carmen Solomons is changing this.

Africa's lost a musical genius, the legendary singer Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) who passed away on this day in 2008. We remember this legend through her...

The Zimbabwean government has shot down suggestions to allow same sex-marriages in the country, choosing to accept 142 recommendations made by the United Nations Human Rights...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has come under fire for his xenophobic remarks against Somalis in Minnesota. Trump said Somali migrants are a “disaster” and Minnesota...

The dust will certainly take time to settle, on the contentious decision to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to American songwriter, and singer Bob...

The Toyota Center arena in Houston, Texas, on October 22 had what was without doubt the largest gathering of Africans in its history, and we have...

What’s not great about America? That was the question foremost in the mind of freelance South African journalist Carien du Plessis when she stepped onto an...

Moroccan writer Leila Slimani has won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for her novel “Chanson douce” (loosely translated “Sweet Song”). Slimani is only the...