
Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.




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














Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Wilson Gilmour and others pledge their support for the shack dwellers’ movement and call for solidarity in the wake of the assassination of...

Nurse Anna Qabale Duba is the first Kenyan to win the prestigious Aster Guardian Global Nursing Award. Shortlisted from an initial pool of 24,000 nominee nurses...

A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.

A court in Kano, northern Nigeria, recently convicted an atheist for making social media posts it found to be blasphemous against Islam. Insults against religion are...

Kenya elections 2022: Raila Odinga has picked female veteran politician and former rival Martha Karua as his running mate.

We don’t face multiple separate crises. The system itself is the crisis. The global system is not in a crisis that can be resolved. The system...

The Congolese advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights has been living in fear after spurious charges of ‘promoting homosexuality’ led the police to her door.

Kenya’s LGBTI community continues to face the deadly consequences of homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.

Compensation to Kenya’s Mau Mau veterans and detention victims has been long overdue. Even with the British court ruling in favour of a £19.9 Million payout,...