Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...
South Africa’s foreign policy is supposed to be guided by the principle of ubuntu (humanness), so a visit to an...
We need to talk about this pressure on African women to have at least one male child. It devalues women, and, equally saddening, it causes mothers...
The Ebola menace is gripping residents of Lagos. New incidents of the Ebola virus in the fastest growing city in Africa had been announced by the...
Africa is on a quest to reclaim the continent from over 100 years of photographic misrepresentation. Local photographers are looking for balance on a continent so...
As South Africa celebrates Women’s Month, it’s about time we stopped paying lip service to the empowerment of women, writes Benedicta Dube
Tunisia has sealed its main border with Libya after thousands of stranded Egyptian and foreign nationals tried to penetrate the passage, whilst fleeing continuous conflict in...
The Ugandan Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's Anti-Homosexuality Act was passed without the requisite parliamentary quorum and is therefore null and void. Ironically enough,...
Uganda's constitutional court has invalidated the controversial piece of legislation commonly known as the 'Anti-Gay law", saying it was not passed legally therefore was in breach...
Why is there an absence of African women in nonfiction writing? Why is there a perception of so-called “feminine” subjects as less important than the “masculine”?...
For many Nigerians, the news of women blowing themselves up did not read stranger than other reports of Boko Haram atrocities. It was something that has...
