In Samia Suluhu’s rise and subsequent consolidation, one sees not only the imprint of her own personality but also the...
The Amazons of Dahomey are the only documented female army in modern history and one of the world’s unresolved curiosities....
Africans are losing $1.8-billion a year due to high fees levied on funds sent from abroad by relatives, Britain's leading think tank on development said Wednesday
Twenty years after the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and those Hutu considered as traitors, Rwandans are still trying to cope with their past and to prevent...
The main political parties remain stuck in the old apartheid paradigm while the people are trying to move on. Now a campaign to spoil ballots in...
How do the various combinations - ‘one man, a mistress and at least one girlfriend’; ‘one woman, a steady partner, and several transient lovers’; ‘older man,...
Music as a form of political and social protest was common in South Africa throughout the apartheid years, but as we mark our 20th Anniversary of...
Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina is the most high profile person to come out as gay in Africa, earning a place at the centre of the emotionally...
In February, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina earned a place at the centre of the emotionally fraught debate over homosexuality in Africa. In this far-ranging interview, Mr....
South Africa's main political opposition party the DA has accused President Jacob Zuma of insulting former president Nelson Mandela's views on human rights through his failure...
After raiding the offices of Walter Reed Project for training homosexuals earlier, the Uganda Police have now alleged that the now closed Makerere University Walter Reed...
South Africa positions itself as a continental leader, but the domestic reality is very different with immigration policies becoming increasingly stringent. This not only sanctions xenophobia...