
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




The history of Northern Kenya and marginalisation goes as far back as the colonial days. The same trend used by...














In July 2016, a truck carrying 57 Malawian children was intercepted in South Africa – after the driver and his two accomplices had successfully navigated their...

Underlying the political and economic challenges that postcolonial Africa has had to grapple with is the knowledge that the continent has to devise its own path...

One political party in Zambia is championing the legalisation of marijuana. Naturally, it is the Green Party. It might be the only party contesting the Zambian...

Language shapes how we see the world. The vocabulary that labels the political, legal and social impacts of discriminatory and unjust practices as ‘women’s issues’ serves...

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...