
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure,...




Odinga escaped all attempts by his detractors to reduce him to an ethnic leader.

















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...

Since the advent of the multiparty politics in 1991 in Kenya, the Gikuyu Embu Meru Association (GEMA) electorate has always strictly voted for one of its...

The launch of the movement in Durban comes as President Ramaphosa cautions against “deeply disturbing” acts against immigrants

Government ministers and political leaders are going along with extremist Nhlanhla ‘Lux’ Dlamini in blaming migrants for the country’s problems. More violence will surely follow.

Hountondji comes across as the anointed enfant terrible of African philosophy.

Odinga is considered a master strategist, sometimes populist and excellent mobiliser.

Zimbabwean PhD student Simbarashe Moyo is among those who were at the forefront of organising and assisting African students displaced by the Russia-Ukraine War. "The aim...