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




The commitment of African leaders remains the greatest obstacle to African renaissance and development. Consultation with citizens is also called...














South Africa has warned Zimbabweans resident in the country about pending deportation of those who failed to acquire permits under the 2010 Dispensation for Zimbabwe Project...

A new study reveals that religion and ideology aren't the leading drivers of radicalisation in Somalia

Earlier this month, Rwanda's Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye, announced the government's plans to sue 300 public servants over mismanagement of state funds. The government is...

Islamic extremism gets a lot of coverage, but much of what many Christians accept as normal because their pastor says it is so looks very much...

Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s 2014 Index of African Governance is out. According to the findings, more Africans than ever are participating at a democratic level, while at...

As a black African travelling abroad you always come with more baggage than what you stowed on the flight over. But, in Thailand and Malaysia, all...

The 2010 constitution prevents foreigners from owning land in Kenya, but as Kenyans have come to find out implementing these provisions are complicated by the ambiguous...

A letter on employment equity written by the vice-chancellor of the revered University of Cape Town (UCT), Max Price, has sparked outrage from its black academics...

It is not enough that we have words like peruse which mean what they mean and the exact opposite of it, mankind just had to have...

Twitter erupted with fury yesterday after two South African university students posted photos of themselves in blackface. Defenders are asking how blackface if any different from...