
This is a passionate plea for Africans home and abroad to seize the times, unite and change their conditions permanently....














We hear a lot about Africa's growing middle class – but what does "being middle class" really mean on the continent? Ikenna Azuike went to Tanzania...

The dreams of hundreds of Ethiopian migrants headed for South Africa are defeated in Malawi as they remain detained in overcrowded prisons waiting for repatriation for...

Phindile Sithole-Spong was born with HIV but only found out at age 19 when she ‘was diagnosed with full-blown Aids’. She speaks about her organisation, Rebranding...

Child marriage has never been a cultural practice. Not at any given time. It was and is still a product of poverty, where young girls are...
It was always going to be a man made crisis. That is the power shortages being experienced by Zimbabwe and Zambia due to the sharp drop...

The signature Basotho blanket is worn proudly by the people from Lesotho in their everyday lives and it embodies the rich culture and history of Lesotho.

On this day Africa lost one of its most illustrious sons, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, who was assassinated in 1987. Sankara, a military captain, Marxist revolutionary,...

The ten national football team players refused to board their plane back to Eritrea. Meanwhile, the number of Eritreans seeking asylum in Europe has increased threefold...

Marlon James became the first Jamaican writer to win the prestigious literary prize in its 47-year history, for A Brief History Of Seven Killings, a novel...

The Intore dance is the most famous and longest established in Rwanda. It is sometimes referred to as the dance of heroes.