We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
Njuguna Ndung'u has the experience that suits Ruto’s bottom-up economics but lacks the political gravitas to appease voters.
The 2016 municipal elections in South Africa were a referendum on President Zuma. The results are clear: not only opposition parties, but a significant portion of...
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (PhD), born in 1977 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, is an independent art curator and biotechnologist. He is Curator at Large for Documenta 14...
Unoma Azuah is a Nigerian academic and the author of Length of Light and Sky-high Flames, both works of fiction. In this interview, she spoke to...
The Olympic Games are a global spectacle, the world’s most exciting multi-sport event. Africa, though, has underachieved at the Olympics, although this time around in Rio...
A Namibian Grade 12 learner Simon Petrus is making waves after he invented a mobile phone, with no sim-card, which uses radio signals and doesn’t require...
Zimbabwe’s unemployed graduates today conducted a peaceful march (#ThisGown) in a protest to highlight the high levels of unemployment. The unemployed graduates converged with other groups...
Bob Marley is one of those rare artists who continues to touch the hearts of millions of people across the world, even though he died more...
Scientists at the University of Cape Town’s Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) in South Africa have identified a second compound, which could treat and prevent malaria,...
It’s the same old story on repeat. A Western visitor or celebrity comes to the continent and writes about their adventures in ‘deepest, darkest Africa.’ Well,...
On the eve of the most heavily contested local government election in the history of South Africa, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is a predictable...
