Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90. He served as a consultant to...
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...
February 21 marks the anniversary of the assassination of one of the most pre-eminent and influential leader in the struggle for human rights, justice and freedom...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first United Nations chief from the African continent, has passed away at the age of 93, it was announced last Tuesday in the...
Fires set and students arrested in protests over accommodation shortage
From its Chinese-built headquarters, where its operations are funded by the West, the African Union’s demands to be taken as an equal partner in global affairs...
Black History Month, observed every February in the United States, is a period set aside to celebrate important events and people in the history of black...
The head of Uganda's media regulator, Godfrey Mutabazi, said the social media block was introduced after a request from the electoral commission. Uganda's leading mobile operator...
