Recent damning revelations about Zimbabwean superstar, Oliver Mtukudzi’s paternal negligence divided public opinion. This piece revisits the songs Tuku wrote...
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has opened a funding and support process that will assist countries to roll-out the first-ever malaria...
Oromo people are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia but remain politically marginalised. Persecution and violent assimilationist policies pursued by the state have caused many to...
African leaders meeting in The Hague for The Nuclear Security Summit should first ask Western countries to dismantle their nuclear weapons. And then propose a world...
One's nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship - politics, geography, circumstance and even choice....
Female MPs in Kenya have stormed out of a late-night parliamentary session in a row over the legalisation of polygamy
I am glad that I am neither a soldier nor a mercenary. Both are instruments of war and destruction. Nobody should ask me to fire machine...
Lupita Nyong’o, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Chimamanda Adichie don’t resemble images of Africans that Americans are used to seeing. The cumulative effect of more such...
Many question the wisdom of interracial dating, but actually, we seem to have an equally big problem with dating between one African culture and another. Or...
I do not wish to counter the stand our leaders have taken against the International Criminal Court. They have argued that it is a racist court...
South Africa has 11 official languages, but some black people are being brought up to speak only English. Others equate speaking English with intelligence, forgetting that...
