
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...




With remarkable creativity, young Kenyans used technology to organise nationwide protests. The state’s digital response has been equally remarkable, but...














There are new contenders, but the political playing field is as unbalanced as under Robert Mugabe.

Ideology informs foreign policy practice. Behaviour that could – for better or worse – influence individual lives.

Apart from a rich musical legacy, the beloved gospel singer will be remembered by a generation of artists to whom she was an inspiration, a caring...

Abortions are more often self-induced by women with drugs and dangerous substances in Nigeria due to restrictive abortion laws.

African countries cannot sustain the high cost of elections in the face of competing public spending priorities. The dependence on donor support to bridge election budget...

Today Africans are celebrating Africa Day, one of the most important days on the continent. This year's African Union theme of Africa Day is focused on...

A new law to punish states that back certain Russian actions could have major implications for African countries.

Senegal’s colonial heritage has been interpreted to conceive an African future, turning colonial heritage into an archive of a possible Afrotopia.

In this article, Sungu Oyoo relates happenings in his village of Kajulu (Kenya) to the Pan-African crisis by exploring how the Neo-colonial state reproduces itself, then...

African Liberation Day is set aside to reflect on our gains as a people trying to be free. Here the reflections bring the personal at the...