Singapore built its anti-corruption success by engineering honesty as the rational choice—through ironclad anti-corruption laws, fearsome enforcement by an independent...
People in Nigeria are creating new drugs either because they can’t afford more traditional narcotics, because they’re not controlled or...
The Black Feminisms Forum (BFF) is scheduled to take place in early September this year in Salvador, Brazil, ahead of the 2016 Association for Women’s Rights...
The African Union (AU) has finally launched the long-awaited African passport as part of the bloc’s 2063 Agenda. The passport was launched during opening of the...
Just more than half a century ago, in the Belgian Congo, a baby was learning his first words, words that would grow into music and diffuse...
Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London and Britain’s newly appointed Foreign Secretary, is a master of offence, particularly when it comes to Africa. Johnson has...
Zimbabwean activist, Pastor Evan Mawarire, who was arrested yesterday and ‘charged with inciting violence’ is making his first court appearance at Rotten Row Magistrates Court in...
Besides his plays, poems and essays, Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka, is also famous for his pithy remarks. In commemoration of his birthday today, 13 July, we...
At the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. Richard Munang and Robert Mgendi write...
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested Evan Mawarire, a pastor, who started #ThisFlag, a social media campaign, which encourages citizens to speak on poor governance, the ailing...
It is not going to come as welcome news to universities in Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and many other African countries, but none of...
Zambia’s aviation records keep tumbling, Kalenga Kamwendo became the country’s youngest pilot last year aged 20 but that record has been shattered by 19 year-old Besa...
