The recent claim that Gabon’s president Ali Bongo is actually Nigerian has shone a spotlight on a subject not many were aware of, that of the...
A year after Nelson Mandela’s death, South Africans still have much to learn from his complex legacy.
“Tribalism” is a taboo word, but it’s hard to think of a better one to describe what motivates the Zimbabwean government’s treatment of the Ndebeles. The...
It is a year today since South Africa and the world lost the presence of a giant moral and political figure. We often don't speak ill...
You would think that a continent which was on the receiving end of the terrible trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 16th to 19th centuries would have...
