Many countries have joined more than one organisation, which divides loyalties and constrains capacity and cohesion.
A young inventor from northern Namibia has innovatively used scrap material to build a satellite dish booster to enhance people's internet connectivity, especially those in the...
Tanzanian police apprehended eight people in connection with 85 refuse bags stuffed with human body parts - including limbs, fingers and skulls - found dumped in...
Several Zimbabweans in recent years have been beaten or lost lives over lobola (bride price), and some people are calling for the ban of this traditional...
Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is...
Western journalists often write about Africa in absolute terms, offering reductionist narratives from which their readers form impressions of a continent they’ve never visited. I’m a...
"Africa is not poor, it is poorly managed", said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2009. Equatorial Guinea, whose president has been in power for 35...
To many observers, Africans tend not to kiss in public because they’re prudes. Consequently, some Africans have bought the idea that kissing in public is a...
African sports people have broken new ground in their different sporting codes worldwide. We see them shine at the Olympics, at football World Cups and in...
Malawi turned 50 years old recently, and as with any birthday celebration it was time to look at achievements in the past, if any, and also...
After heavy rains, we seldom take a second glance at the puddles of water that form on our roads. They're usually an inconvenience, especially for pedestrians....
