
We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...




Kenya’s election winner has fired the first shot in a war of attrition against legacy media.














Africa’s first legal music download service has been launched in Senegal. The service is accessed through the website called MusikBi, and close to 200 artists have signed...

World’s best footballer Lionel Messi has given 5 year-old Afghan football fanatic Murtaza Ahmadi the perfect gift: An autographed jersey. The picture of the boy wearing...

South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the Expropriation Bill, a major step towards redressing racial imbalances in land ownership. The country currently follows the willing-buyer, willing-seller...

It is time for South Africa to overhaul its foreign policy.

Since mid-2015, over 3 000 refugees from Mozambique have fled to neighbouring Malawi and are being housed in camps set up by the United Nations High...

The music video, which shows both a male and a female same sex couple in various scenarios including one scene where the two women are in...

The chickens are coming home to roost as students at Cambridge University’s Jesus College voted that a bronze cockerel known as “okukor” looted from the Benin...

African photography is on the rise. Following decades of photographic misrepresentation by observers from outside the continent, African photographers are now showing the world what they...

There was a palpable sense of relief at the African Union (AU) as Robert Mugabe’s term as chairperson of the continental body came to an end....

In the last quarter of 2015 Africa joined the rest of the world in adopting the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development as well as the COP21...