
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

In a landmark case, two teenage sisters from Tanzania who are living with albinism have been granted asylum in the U.S. with help from students at...

Blogging has become a phenomenon across the world, providing an informal platform that creates access to differing human experiences in numerous contexts. In our interests, we...

Opposition protests turned violent on Wednesday in central Harare as Zimbabwean police fired teargas and used water cannons and baton sticks to disperse demonstrators protesting against...