
We have now moved beyond the Shock Doctrine. The empire is not executing a crisis. It is being executed by...




The “hustler-in-chief”: William Ruto — a history maker who became Kenya’s first sitting deputy president to succeed the incumbent and...














If most Nigerians are to be believed, we do not use sex toys. But somebody’s buying all the sex toys sold in Nigeria, and it’s not...
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has congratulated all the political parties and supporters for the peaceful campaign that ended on Sunday, in anticipation of the tightly...

Remember the shocking South African mob justice video that went viral last week? According to Times Live (SA), we have recent learnt that the SAPA police...
On Tuesday Uganda passed a law that criminalises the transmission of HIV and made it legal for medical staff to disclose a patient's HIV status with...

The 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art kicked off in Dakar last week, and one of the participating artists is Ezra Wube from Ethiopia. Ezra lives...

The battle lines were once clear: European Have-Everything on one side and African Have-Nothing on the other. Now, in an economic system that depends on over-exploitation...

African photography is on the rise. Following decades of photographic misrepresentation by observers from outside the continent, African photographers are now showing the world what they...

Despite his advanced age and the southern African country's deep economic problems, President Robert Mugabe is not leaving Zimbabwe's top office, according to his close ally...

As expected on 7 May, the ANC – as the only viable party to run the country – was handed another five years in government by...

In political, academic and other analyses of Africa, the North is often either removed from the continent or treated as fundamentally different from “black” aka “real”...