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




Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. announced during a press conference in Ghana that the institution is considering adding an...














The Gambian parliament has passed the Children's Amendment Bill bill banning child marriage, as part of the government's commitment to fight and prevent the practice. The...

Writer Enajite Efemuaye spends time talking to two girls who have been placed in a shelter for survivors of sexual violence in Lagos, Nigeria, and finds...

For generations, women, femmes and girls the world over have had to suffer the weight of patriarchy. No more, says writer OluTimehin Adegbeye; the time for...

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come,” poet and human rights campaigner Victor Hugo once said. The late French’s Statesman’s words...

Ghanaian artists face an uphill struggle in their quest to attain national recognition for their work. With the introduction of new digital technologies and audiences on...

Upcoming Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker, Nikyatu Jusu, has released the trailer of her new feature film, Flowers, which she wrote and directed with Yvonne Michelle Shirley.

Unlike the majority of white Zimbabweans, Dirk Frey of the Occupy Africa Unity Square movement dares to raise his voice against Robert Mugabe’s government. Kudzayi Zvinavashe...

Is Donald Trump a racist hiding in plain site? The Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election has said some...

It’s at once the best and oddest news to come out of Africa this week but research from Ethiopia appears to suggest that the scent of...

“We could’ve been best friends, if only you weren’t a feminist,” she echoed, as she threw her hand over my shoulder. Writer Shahd Fadlalmoula, shares the...