Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
The illegal trade of pangolins is thriving despite efforts to clamp down on the trade. Pangolins are believed to be...
British media is awash with reports that Boris Johnson’s government has agreed a deal with Rwanda to have asylum seekers processed there rather than in the...
Global digital payments facilitator Visa is expanding into the region by opening its first innovation studio in Kenya. The aim is to adopt the market of...
On 6 April 2022, Burkina Faso's former leader Blaise Compaoré was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the 1987 murder of Thomas Sankara....
His major work The Quiet Violence of Dreams is about a young man undergoing a mental breakdown, something that the novelist also experienced.
“We can’t credit the crime in Diepsloot to foreigners. The poor infrastructure in this place plays a very big part in allowing crime to happen,” -...
In this week’s cartoon, the killing of Zimbabwean Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot has put the spotlight back on South Africa’s deeply worrisome and enduring problem—xenophobia.
President Samia Hassan has set Tanzania on a change of course – time will tell if the pattern holds and addresses the country’s challenges.
Field Marshall Muthoni wa Kirima is one of the last living freedom fighters and the only woman to receive the rank of field marshall in the...
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria, will be remembered for his roles in the rebirth of African Union and peacemaking.
Long Read | In this second essay of a seven-part Shona series, “Is Dambudzo Marechera also among Medicinemen?” Onai Mushava revisits Marechera’s famous statement, “Shona was...
