
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come...




The commitment of African leaders remains the greatest obstacle to African renaissance and development. Consultation with citizens is also called...














A student in Northern Uganda hanged herself over the weekend after failing her national secondary examinations for a fourth time

Is Africa slowly turning the rhetoric of democracy into action? The Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU), which introduced to the continental body the values...

The East African newspaper has been suspended by the government of Tanzania which says the 20-year-old paper is not officially registered.

South Africa's Minister of Small Business Development recently made xenophobic comments, which prompted the DA to lodge a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission...

The fast track land reform programme has been a point of political conflict since colonisation, and now Zimbabwe's political elite are manipulating the system to make...

A Nigerian businessman, Taofick Okoya, created a doll which has grown so big that it now outsells the legendary Barbie dolls in Nigeria

In a recent New York Times article, Nigerian writer Tricia Nwaubani argued that Western publishers still determine the type of African story to be published and...

With 400 military vehicles already rolling, it’s worth considering what kind of impact Chad’s intervention is likely to make in the fight against Boko Haram in...

With four novels published on the continent, there is no better person to speak to about the production and consumption of African Literature on the continent...

A Civic United Front leader appeared in court on Wednesday to answer to charges of staging a protest without a permit, in which police arrested 30...