
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




New Governor Johnson Sakaja faces a daunting task to restore Nairobi to its glory days of “Green City in the...














Angélique Kidjo didn’t mince her words in an interview with Al Jazeera.

The Afro-punk performer talks Fela Kuti, aiming for New York's SummerStage in 2015 and more

Namibia is making history today as it chooses a new president through Africa's first electronic elections

How have we bred the sort of monsters that can strip a woman in the streets when we come from a fairytale history of women wearing...

The continuous existence of black people is a political act, and after Ferguson I can no longer separate my feminism from my political fight against the...

If this writing thing doesn’t work out I might be joining Il Divo (those guys look like they get laid a lot) and be taking groupies...

Michael Brown, a young black man, is dead. The man who killed him, a white policeman, will not be punished. Because in America, white is always...

I spent eight years convincing myself that it was all a bad dream, and I am not alone in that response.

New evidence of a Rwandan killed in Germany last month has emerged and it points to xenophobia

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...