Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...
Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90. He served as a consultant to...
For the love of instruments, have a look at these portraits of traditional musical instruments from different parts of Africa.
Seven people in Malawi have been attacked and burnt to death by a mob after they were found in possession of human bones suspected to be...
In South Africa, the line of the week probably belonged to former finance minister Trevor Manuel. When asked what he would do if he were still...
Virginity is essentially a social construct which defines sex in very narrow ways and in this way provides an avenue for the policing, demonization and shaming...
An unidentified Zimbabwean woman picks up crumbs that fell off the VVIP table after President Robert Mugabe’s 92nd birthday party which cost $800,000 in a country...
A Batwa legend might explain the lowly status of the people found in Uganda, eastern DRC, Rwanda and Burundi. A man, Kihanga, had three sons named...
Kenya Film Classification Board has asked Google to take down gay song. The music video is titled ‘Same Love’ by a Kenyan band called Art Attack....
South Africa has scored a first after launching a U.S.$1 million solar plant, which will make George Airport the country and continent’s first solar-powered airport. The...
Not a year goes by without horrific stories about newborns found in garbage dumps or abandoned in a pit latrine circulating in the media. An estimated...
Meet Amelia and Jasmine - genetically identical twins believed to be the UK’s first “black and white” twins born from the same egg.
