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




Nigeria is preparing to elect its next president in February 2023. That person will have a daunting task fixing a...














A 31 year-old Nigerian scientist has received a patent for his pioneering work of turning urine into flammable gases, raising hopes in a time of a...

Tanzania stands accused of going back on its promise not to evict Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral land in order to build a reserve for the...

20 years after the fall of apartheid in South Africa, the government has shifted policy to attempt to "balance out the scales" from the injustices of...

Hanging a woman or stoning her to death for committing adultery are the types of prescriptions one would expect to hear nowadays from places controlled by...


Today, 84 years ago, a literary giant was born. Chinua Achebe will always be remembered for his colossal contribution to the establishing of modern African literature

The God we have been taught to serve is not only alien to us but also harmful, we must kill him and in his stead raise...

On this day, in 1884, Western countries met to discuss the future of Africa in what is known as the Berlin Conference. The result of the...

In a Ghana hotel I overheard a western-sounding white male utter the following to a listener on his phone: “The people in Africa are so simple,...
The African media is saturated with stories of ‘save our wildlife’. Save your ‘Jumbos’. Don’t kill our Big Five! Save your future! I hardly have a...