She experiments with form while capturing the hopes and contradictions of our times.
South Africa — Home Affairs has filed its opposing to the court application brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation to...
An exhibition in Lagos highlights the importance of aso-oke, the premier fabric in Yoruba land. Artist Tunde Owolabi spoke to Oris Aigbokhaevbolo about the importance of...
Investigating crimes against humanity is a notoriously complex, slow and expensive business. Zimbabwe meets both these criteria. Basic human rights have been something of a luxury...
There is increasing evidence that rates of child sexual abuse and rape are disproportionately high in sub-Saharan Africa. A searingly powerful photographic exhibition hopes to break...
Since the 1990s, when multi-party politics was re-introduced in Kenya, the country has seen numerous political transitions. In 2010, a new constitution was promulgated, paving the...
Thomas Sankara's death nearly 30 years ago during a coup has never been fully explained. Burkina Faso's interim president, Michel Kafando, says he will allow an...
The President of Zambia, Guy Scott has been suspended by political party Patriotic Front for "not respecting the constitution." The leader will remain a member of...
Anti-retrovirals (ARVs) are supposed to be free for HIV positive people, but not in Harare, where some doctors sell the drugs on the black market
Ali Mazrui, one of the foremost African intellectuals for the last fifty years, died recently. Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire reflects on Mr. Mazrui’s five strategies for taming...
As the descendants of former slaves in the Caribbean face discrimination and a stripping away of their human rights and citizenship, we should all rally to...
