
Singapore built its anti-corruption success by engineering honesty as the rational choice—through ironclad anti-corruption laws, fearsome enforcement by an independent...




The IMF recently published the conditions attached to a newly agreed programme with Zambia. The IMF wants Zambia to reduce...










Uthukela District in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa has introduced “The Maidens Bursary,” offered to young girls seeking tertiary education on condition they remain virgins. To keep...

The Amasunzu traditional hairstyle is hands down one of the most creative ever. Still being worn today, it was and still is a symbol of pride...

The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe has ruled that marriage for girls and boys under the age of 18 is illegal and unconstitutional. The ruling came after...

South Africans were happy to see the back of 2015, having had just about enough of fractious politics and on-again-off-again finance ministers. Yet in the midst...

Orania is an Afrikaner-only South African town located along the Orange River in the arid Karoo region of the country’s Northern Cape province. We look at...

It is has become obvious that the discussion on democracy in Africa has become solely about presidential term limits. Going a step further, it seems power...
Rasheeda Yehuza is a Ghanaian software engineer and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Nasara Tech and co-founder of Tech Needs Girls Ghana.

Martin Luther King's legacy must be contextualised within a larger global struggle against racism and hatred. Africans should revisit the values he espoused and continue with...

Zimbabwe’s traditional leaders have joined the debate on capital punishment, calling for the abolition of death penalty. The debate comes at a time where some inmates...

Black Hollywood has reacted strongly to the absence of black nominees at the 2016 Academy Awards. As happened last year, the hashtag OscarsSoWhite has again trended...