Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
The “hustler-in-chief”: William Ruto — a history maker who became Kenya’s first sitting deputy president to succeed the incumbent and...
Michael Ighodaro is a Nigerian activist and LGBTQ rights advocate based in New York City. In response to the anti-gay law passed by President Goodluck Jonathan...
France has in a statement vowed to "do all to uncover the truth... and will not leave this unpunished" after Islamist group claimed to have killed...
Nowhere else in the world is maternal mortality and the low use of contraceptive higher than in West Africa, says Malian Dr. Cheick Touré who is...
Recently a young South African man lost his penis. The member in question was lost during an initiation ritual and when he attempted to ask the...
The Kenyan government has thrown a security cordon over a part of the city of Nairobi most populated by the Somali. Why? Because al Shabaab operates...
Last week the organization I work for – the Consumers Protection Association – published a joint report with Oxfam that shows how a health public–private partnership...
Money transfer operators have been siphoning money from African migrant workers and diasporans with little comeback for years – but Western Union and Moneygram, who dominate...
We are taught to believe that our modern lifestyle – which thrives on egoism, competition and inequality – is an improvement on the past. But considering...
The contradiction of Kenya’s independence is that those with the money to buy a lot of land were usually those who had collaborated with colonialism. How...
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
