
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come...




Despite facing brutal repression, the wave of youth-led movements in Nigeria and Kenya that exploded last year have shown remarkable...














The Borderless Africa – Free Movement Campaign seeks to achieve an Africa where Africans can move around their own continent without the current restrictions in place....

The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and maintain the digital realm.

Doctors are demanding the implementation of a 2017 agreement to improve working conditions.

Andrew Chatora’s 2023 novel, Harare Voices and Beyond, interrogates land, race and nationhood in Zimbabwe. Literary journalist Onai Mushava picks apart the allegorical layers of the...

The World Bank and the IMF are getting climate finance completely backwards, lending money to the wrong countries and imposing austerity on the wrong countries. Instead...

David Chasumba’s latest short story collection sweeps through immigrant lives, racism and moral duplicity. Chasumba is a master of understatement, keenly alert to his society’s flaws...

The United Kingdom has returned 32 royal artefacts looted from Ghana's Asante Kingdom in the 19th Century in a loan deal.

The political situation in Togo is dire. Faure Gnassingbe is pushing for amendments to the constitution that would consolidate his power and allow him to rule...

The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.

It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.