
In February, Faustin-Archange Touadéra was elected president of the Central African Republic (CAR), ending a three-year-long transition in the country. This has given CAR a new...

There is a Shona proverb about how searing the hatred can be between people who used to love each other. You could say this about the...

In July 2016, a truck carrying 57 Malawian children was intercepted in South Africa – after the driver and his two accomplices had successfully navigated their...

Underlying the political and economic challenges that postcolonial Africa has had to grapple with is the knowledge that the continent has to devise its own path...

Language shapes how we see the world. The vocabulary that labels the political, legal and social impacts of discriminatory and unjust practices as ‘women’s issues’ serves...