
The hyper-individualist, extractive capitalist system is crashing before our eyes. As the old world fractures, true renewal lies not in...




Many countries have joined more than one organisation, which divides loyalties and constrains capacity and cohesion.










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...


In an attempt to silence journalists, activists, NGOs and other critics, the Kenyan government is denouncing them as agent provocateurs and accusing them of being funded...

A journalist and nine others were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for protesting against a constitutional referendum on Monday, according to judicial sources in Egypt....

Here in Ghana, God himself dictates your sex life through his servants: the pastors. Thus sayeth the Lord, “Sex between a man and his wife is...