
Zambia’s peaceful polling day has given way to a far more precarious test: a nationwide suspension of vote counting, competing...




Germany’s genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama has been well documented, but the massacre of the Bushmen from 1912 to...

















The sourcing of wheat has factored into the political and strategic decisions and security of many countries.

Zimbabwe has two infamous iconoclasts. Nelson Chamisa and Dambudzo Marechera. One is a Pentecostal dream-twister, and the other, an atheist prankster. Both are on record denouncing...

There is no evidence that international migrants are a major cause of unemployment in South Africa. Misinformation drives this misconception.

The wife and four children of Mbodazwe Banajo “Elvis” Nyathi, who was brutally killed in a xenophobic attack, are reeling from the shock, while other migrants...

Despite controversy at home and a decade late, the Grammy win proves how much the world love’s South Africa’s biggest house music star.

Despite a storied post-colonial history of political misadventures, strife and state dysfunction, DRC has always maintained a close cultural relationship with other East African countries. Joining...

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.