Poet, soldier and critic of postcolonial elites, Hadraawi was the greatest poet of his generation.
President Robert Mugabe has served as the head of Zimbabwe’s government for 34 years. But even his biggest fans know it is almost impossible that he...
Daniel Adeyelika is Nigeria's youngest certified pilot and he serves as First Officer on the Boeing 737-600 to 900 aircraft series
Leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron have said that aid sceptics are wrong. Aid is essential. Conditions on the African continent demonstrate that perhaps aid...
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...
