
She blazed a trail for Black women athletes – despite the challenges they face in sport and society.














The Federation of Disability Association in Malawi (FEDOMA) wants the government to enact a law, which will protect people with albinism from being kidnapped or killed...

Dye the greys, Botox the lines, cut up the face: when did our societies (no doubt with the help of mass western patriarchal media) turn looking...

In case you missed, Lesotho held a general election over the weekend and TIA looks back at some of the concerns facing the nation leading up...

The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba was announced on Friday as winner of the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership

On the 1st of March 1896 Ethiopia secured its sovereignty and made history by defeating Italy, which sought to conquer and colonise the east African Empire.

A 10 year old Nigerian girl has been accepted in a UK university to study for a maths degree

Nigerian-American writer, Teju Cole, and Nigerian novelist Helon Habila are two of nine writers who have been named recipients of the 2015 Windham Campbell Prizes each...

What is apparent is that Thomas Mapfumo is an artist who in Steve Biko parlance, ‘writes/sings what he likes’. And the people of Zimbabwe know this....

Truvada contains the HIV treatment drugs tenofovir and emtricitabine, which may prevent HIV infections among men who have sex with other men, according to a study...

Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be an infuriating address. In an election season, it becomes maddening, a space where nothing is sacred any...