Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...
Controversial South African band Die Antwoord illustrates the power relations that make cultural appropriation and blackface so damaging.
21 September marks the anniversary of the birth of an African titan Kwame Nkrumah. The first President and Prime Minister of Ghana, Nkrumah led Ghana to...
The $3 million space programme launched last month is hoped to boost farming and communications
When will customs officials at airports stop checking your temperature upon arrival from an African destination? In countries like Ethiopia, half a dozen medics in white...
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has lambasted NATO for undermining security in Africa and triggering the current migrant crisis that now faces Europe
Takura Zhangazha on the political reshuffle in Zimbabwe and Zanu Pf's intention to perpetuate and secure its position as ruling party and ensure a present, but...
A group of students of Uganda's Makerere University have created a mobile app that detects vaginal bacteria
There are fears over the security of people living with albinism in Tanzania ahead of the country’s October elections, after an albino man was attacked in...
With the odds stacked heavily against him, few people would have expected Abdisamad Adan to go to college, let alone one of the world’s elite institutions...
Ghadames is one of the oldest pre-Saharan settlement.
How Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire’s adoption of his mother’s name led him to question the Africanness of names.
