We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...
The opposition made huge gains in last week’s elections, but now it faces tough choices.
Nigerian graduate Ufot Ekong topped the awards podium after achieving the highest grades at a Japanese university in 50 years and solving a 30 year-old mathematical...
The rising number of terror attacks and other incidents of insecurity in Kenya have resulted in an increased demand for private security. Steady economic growth and...
Sex for women often comes down to marriage and reproduction, with the central idea being that you must give your vagina to your husband and then...
Renowned scientist and biologist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was last week endorsed by the Mauritian Parliament to be the first female president of the African island
The Wodaabe or Bororoare people are proud traditionally nomadic cattle-herders and traders from a small subgroup of the Fulani ethnic group who are scattered across the sub-Saharan Sahelian steppe...
Is the green economy the most sensible way forward for Africa?
In my life and work, I have been lucky to meet numerous young women who are active in social justice movements, have founded organisations that have...
Ugandan families have been subjected to bribery, trickery, and coercion for them to give up their children to United States citizens and other foreigners for adoption....
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta is, despite expectations of alliance to the West, known for his marked anti-Western rhetoric, but that rhetoric may be more opportunistic than...
In Northern Ghana, the children of accused witches are often implicated and isolated along with their mothers in Ghana's witch camps and witch sanctuaries.
