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




Kenya’s election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.










Haben Girma was born deaf-blind but she had access to opportunities afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Girma is Harvard Law School’s first deaf-blind graduate...

Five rescued gold miners, trapped underground for 41 days in Tanzania are receiving treatment at a hospital. The miners ‘survived by eating roots, soil, frogs and...

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary monogamy is defined as “the condition of having a single mate during a period of time.” It’s an ideal generations before...

Roughly a week ago, hundreds of African-Brazilian men and women took to the streets to protest against the injustices faced by people of African descent in...

The current wave of student protests in South Africa has been mostly analysed from a national and local perspective.

On this day an African literary giant Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, was born. Popularly known by his abbreviated name, Chinua, Achebe was born on 16 November 1930...

Rewriting aviation history, Zimbabwe’s first all female flight deck crew Captain Chipo M. Matimba and Captain Elizabeth Simbi Petros, flew the B737 - 200 from Harare...

African countries have the most visa requirements in the world. Only 11 of the 54 countries on the continent offer 100% liberal access to all African...

The ancient underwater ruins of Cleopatra sunk into the sea more than 1500 years ago. Historians believe that things like earthquakes and tidal waves caused the...

Can the ‘political Pope,’ as he is increasingly being called, advance peace and promote reconciliation in Africa where so many others have failed?