
African economies will register strong nominal growth in 2026. But many countries in the region will struggle to convert that...




African footballers have made the English Premier League the global spectacle that it is today. A galaxy of Africans have...












The recent claim that Gabon’s president Ali Bongo is actually Nigerian has shone a spotlight on a subject not many were aware of, that of the...
A year after Nelson Mandela’s death, South Africans still have much to learn from his complex legacy.

The season of imbibing is upon us, but me, I won’t spend a single cent on booze. I’ll be scavenging at parties and listening to stories...

A dry vagina is seen as a disaster for sex in the West. Yet elsewhere, women will run serious health risks to avoid getting wet, says...

“Tribalism” is a taboo word, but it’s hard to think of a better one to describe what motivates the Zimbabwean government’s treatment of the Ndebeles. The...
Appearing on the hit American satirical news programme, The Daily Show, South African comedian Trevor Noah, spoke with the host, Jon Stewart about his anxiety around...

It is a year today since South Africa and the world lost the presence of a giant moral and political figure. We often don't speak ill...

You would think that a continent which was on the receiving end of the terrible trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 16th to 19th centuries would have...
Watch this articulate young Missourian speak to the St.Louis County Council.

Nobel laureate James Watson is having to auction off his Nobel Prize medallion because his income plummeted following his statement that Africans are less intelligent than...