
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




In the same month that African leaders criticised their Western counterparts for failing to attend the Africa Adaptation Summit, the...














Amid accusations of ill-treatment of Ugandan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, the country has banned its citizens from seeking work as maids. The ban will remain...

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...