We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
Britain has gone through unimaginable change culturally and politically during Elizabeth’s 70-year reign.
With as many as 14 sub-Saharan African states taking to the polls, 2015 has been a critical year on the election calendar. On Sunday Tanzania, a...
The education minister Lazarus Dokora says pupils ‘will be instructed in the languages that have been accepted in our Constitution’
Born in Paris in the 80s, Danielle Eog Makedah discovered music by leafing through her father’s vinyl collection. Descriptions of royalty seem to have followed Danielle...
Amidst the #FeesMustFall protests, a second #MustFall has emerged and has largely fallen under the radar: #ThePriceOfBreadMustFall. On Tuesday, a group of activists occupied the Shoprite...
US Republican Party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has once again caused a stir by expressing his beliefs that the world would be a better place if...
This past week, the ANC was dealing with its biggest jolt since it came to power in 1994. With little more than a hashtag, #FeesMustFall, and...
Meet one of Zimbabwe’s few female cross-border truck drivers, who harbours a dream of soon acquiring a commercial pilot licence
“There is going to be blood this year if my party doesn’t win,” said the young man Tanzania, and his fellows cheered him on. For a...
What’s Up Africa satirical news round-up is back and Ikenna Azuike looks at issues from Zanzibar on the stigmatising attitudes -- and sometimes even laws that...
The internet is increasingly a space for intellectual debates; with the ability to connect with like-minded people with similar interests, one can find people who enjoy...
