
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...




Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is backing the resolution by the European Union Parliament to delay the East African Crude...

















On 10 August of every calendar year, Zimbabweans remember their national heroes. The Zimbabwean government rolls out the red carpet at the North Korean built National Heroes...

A 24 year-old South African man is being lauded around the country for his extraordinary that led him through being a supermarket cashier to graduating with...

Achille Mbembe discusses the history and horizon of digital communication and identity in the African continent with Bregtje van der Haak. Mbembe suggests that what some...

A South African graduate has a written a book as a fundraising method to pay for her university transcript because her family could not afford to

In the third part of the Made in Africa series, Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire talks to Dzekashu MacViban, a freelance journalist and writer whose work focuses on...
The first half of the year served up a motley of books by African writers from across the globe. TIA's Ladi Opaluwa has put together a...

There are many reasons people shy away from masturbation, growing hairs on your palms and the fact that God is watching you being just two of...

The euphoria concerning the potential of new technologies to transform society and increase democracy is based on a flawed instrumentalist assumption that technologies by themselves have...
Umlilo is the Xhosa word for fire. It’s also the stage name of Siya Ncobo, one of South Africa’s freshest electronic musicians. He / she is...

It's been quite interesting to see how creative industries within the continent have surpassed mainstream politics in advancing the 'newness of Africa', but on the flipside...