Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
It’s in Britain’s interests to help the African continent reach its potential.
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...
The ills facing Africa today, including low agricultural productivity under a changing climate to Africa’s socio-economic growth, are widely documented. A consequence of low agricultural productivity,...
Businessman and hip-hop artist Akon says his ‘ambitious’ Lighting Africa’ project is bearing fruits with roots in 14 countries
In a world where countless studies have been conducted on women’s sexual pleasure and in which female ejaculation is no longer seen as a myth, some...
Taarab may be the oldest surviving genre of East African music, but what was initially a form of entertainment for the elitist classes has, today, evolved...
Road accident kills 13 and seriously injures 20 others en route to reed dance festival
On Thursday 20 August, Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza surprised many when he was sworn in for his third mandate six days before the inauguration was scheduled...
