Controversial South African band Die Antwoord illustrates the power relations that make cultural appropriation and blackface so damaging.
Acclaimed Zimbabwean sculptor Dominic Benhura is getting a lot of stick from Zimbabweans on social media for a statue of President Robert Mugabe, which is being...
Today the world celebrates the birth and legacy of an African giant, Guinea-Bissauan and Cabo Verdean nationalist Amílcar Cabral, born September 12 1924. We commemorate the...
Mark Namaswa journeys to Koobi Fora, an archaeological site in northern Kenya where archaeologists recently discovered a set of footprints dating back about 1,4 million years.
In talk about the greatest football rivalries on the African continent, Dynamos versus Highlanders in Zimbabwe does not get mentioned often. Yet this contest can be...
Africa has started the 15th edition of Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil remarkably well, bagging seven medals going into day two of the games. Kenya has...
Today Professor Angela Davis will deliver the 17th annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at the University of South Africa, in Pretoria. The annual lecture seeks to...
A debate raged in Zambian public sphere when the country’s foremost crooner, Jordan Katembula, also known as JK, released ‘Allow Me’ and ‘Open’, songs so Nigerian...
Today, the 2016 Paralympic games will be officially unveiled in Brazil’s coastal city of Rio de Janeiro. The opening ceremony will be hosted at Rio’s majestic...
Meet South Africa’s creative artist, Esther Mahlangu, hired by BMW to create amazing artwork for the brand’s 7 Series. The immensely talented Mahlangu beautifully harnesses her...
17 universities from five African countries have made it on the QS World University Rankings, a list of the world’s top institutions of higher learning. The...
