We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
Colombia is an important South American regional hub and potentially important trade partner for Africa.
Last month, the Swaziland Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade Gideon Dlamini, lent his government’s full support to a project announced by a business consortium to...
Cape Town's Open Book Festival kicked off yesterday with dynamic discussions between book lovers, the who's who of South Africa's literati and established writers from across...
Tanzanian albino children whose limbs were hacked off by witch doctors return home after surgery in U.S but still fear for their safety
Ladi Opaluwa went scouting the internet and found the gem of a jazz musician: Somi
Yvonne Adhiambo Owour on her novel, Dust, and life and politics in Kenya.
Khaya Dlanga is many things; a highly regarded author, columnist, social media guru, and an advertising creative with several major awards in his desk drawer. He...
This is Africa interviews Saskia Goldschmidt on her debut novel, The Hormone Factory, and exploitation, the human, systems and change.
A 17 year old girl disclosed before a crowd at a poetry session I attended in Maseru that she had been sexually violated. Upon running into...
Nubians settled in Kibra, about five kilometres from the Nairobi City Centre, starting from about 1911, then again in 1917-18. They were originally reserve troops in...
The theme of this year’s Highway Africa Conference at Rhodes University in South Africa is ‘Journalism and the City’. It is a theme that conference organizers...
