In Samia Suluhu’s rise and subsequent consolidation, one sees not only the imprint of her own personality but also the...
Zimbabwean Dramatist Continueloving “Cont” Mhlanga died in Bulawayo on Monday (1 August), aged 64. The highly regarded theatre director also...
Nigerian church. Kenyan church. Wherever you are in the Diaspora, you will find – among the multicultural churches - many African churches filled with one particular...
Star Quest, the music talent show which produced major Nigerian music and entertainment stars like P Square, Asa, KCEE, Klint D’Drunk, Mr Raw, and helped kick...
Under colonial rule, traditional healers were deemed backward and outlawed. Little was done to investigate the legitimacy of what these healers actually did. Today the prejudice...
The son of a camel herder, Hassan Bashir knows how tough traditional life in Kenya's arid north is, where pastoralists rely on livestock herds surviving boom...
Recalculated GDP figures show that highly-populated Nigeria's economy grew to $453 billion in 2012, leapfrogging SA's $384 billion, according to the World Bank
In an interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, President Paul Kagame has lambasted France for its "direct role" in the mass killings.
Wife-swapping among Namibia's nomadic tribes has been practised for generations, but a legislator's call to enshrine it in law has stirred debate about women's rights and...
Everyone’s focus is on the South Sudanese conflict and we are slowly forgetting that the war on HIV/AIDS must not stop, so much that the trend...
The unstigmatised albinos in Gambia, are gearing up to hold a national awareness day they will seize to send a strong message particularly to East Africa...
“Foreign Gods, Inc.” tells a refreshingly human and relatable story of a Nigerian immigrant desperately trying to keep his head above water. It’s a portrait of...
