
Benin has become the latest country to reveal plans to remove visa requirements for African nationals, and social media is loving it. The policy will open...

Gauteng provincial education authorities in South Africa have ruled that a clause dealing with hairstyles should be temporarily suspended at Pretoria Girls High pending a review...

Turns out Kenya’s ruling coalition is not completely sold on democracy. The Jubilee coalition, which is aiming to turn itself into a political party in September,...

Pupils at Pretoria Girls High in South Africa are protesting against alleged racist rules, which inhibit them from having hairstyles such as afros, bantu knots, dreadlocks...

Rita Nketiah outlines the ways respectability politics constrains African women and girls from expressing the totality of their humanity