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Cartoon | UK High Court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda
Politics and Society3 months ago

Cartoon | UK High Court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda
Politics and Society8 months ago

Benin’s 30m ‘Amazon’ statue honours the women warriors of Dahomey
Arts, Culture and Sport6 months ago

Women behind the decks: The rise of South Africa’s female Amapiano DJs
Politics and Society9 months ago

Alliance High School appoints new head — the smooth transition marks a new dawn
Politics and Society5 months ago

Saudi Arabia is a modern slave hub and graveyard for African migrant workers
Cartoon: Nigeria elections 2023
Politics and Society1 month ago

Cartoon | Nigeria elections 2023
Beyoncé performs in Dubai in 2023.
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Beyoncé is going on a world tour. Why she shouldn’t ignore Africa
African identities6 months ago

Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) continues discriminatory ban on queer content
Angelique Kidjo on stage in Paris in 2021.
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Angelique Kidjo: the diva from Benin could win a record sixth Grammy Award
A person reading the bible
African identities1 month ago

What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe
Nigerian super artist Tems (Temilade Openiyi) 
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Nigeria and South Africa triumph at the 2023 Grammys
Tottenham Hotspur play Arsenal in a Premier League match in 2023
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

South African Tourism wants to sponsor football club Tottenham Hotspur – is it a good idea?
Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome
Politics and Society2 months ago

Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome
Winky D, wearing Lionel Messi Argentina shirt
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Three Silences of Winky D
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, present the redesigned banknotes in Abuja.
Politics and Society2 months ago

Nigeria’s currency redesign and withdrawal limits: questionable policy and bad timing
Nigeria’s national men’s football team
Arts, Culture and Sport3 months ago

Nigeria failed to qualify for the World Cup 2022 – blame their disdain for football school structures and development
South Africa wins the Women’s African Cup of Nations in Rabat as the women’s game grows
Arts, Culture and Sport3 months ago

6 moments in African football in 2022 that will be talked about for years to come
Politics and Society3 months ago

Liberation in our lifetime: Towards an African socialist movement manifesto
Senegalese Jollof Rice
Arts, Culture and Sport2 months ago

UNESCO picks a side in the unceasing Jollof rice war
Thulani Maseko was in a undated photo smiling.
Politics and Society2 months ago

King Mswati III’s government under fire for the “targeted killing” of people’s hero Thulani Maseko

Harare Voices and Beyond Promotional Image
Arts, Culture and Sport6 hours ago

Harare Voices and Beyond: A story of the predator, the prey and everyone else in between
Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
Politics and Society12 hours ago

Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
The Chagos Archipelago comprises over 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 2 000 km north of Mauritius – and only about 1 000 km south of the Maldives.
Politics and Society5 days ago

UK seems ready to return its ‘last African colony’
Costa Titch
Arts, Culture and Sport5 days ago

Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture
Women protesting the failure of the gender equality bills on International Women’s Day in 2022.
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Gender equality in Nigeria: Three reasons why women aren’t represented in politics
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Is Malawi’s Chakwera actively stifling his corruption buster?
Nigerians protesting
Politics and Society3 weeks ago

Will Nigeria’s next president answer to the public?
Paul Mashatile
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what he brings to the table
Chagos Archipelago on the map
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

5th Anniversary of the final forced deportations of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago
The Zangalewa Dance Troupe, inspired by the Cameroonian band Zangalewa, performs in a prison in Kenya.
Arts, Culture and Sport4 weeks ago

Jean-Paul Zé Bella: the cunning Cameroonian soldier who became a global music legend
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
Politics and Society4 weeks ago

Pan-Africanism remains a dream – 4 key issues the African Union must tackle
Record numbers of displaced Africans face worsening prospects
Politics and Society1 month ago

Record numbers of displaced Africans face worsening prospects
Angola's Queen Nzinga of Ndongo
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Upcoming Netflix series spotlights legendary African matriarchs
An Indonesian military honour guard marks the 60th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung in 2015.
Politics and Society1 month ago

When two elephants fight: how the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Young people in Nigeria seek freedom from repression and other governance failures.
Politics and Society1 month ago

Nigerian elections: Eight issues young people want the new government to address
Wind turbine, solution.
Politics and Society1 month ago

Portugal to use Cabo Verdean debt to fund climate and energy transition
A statue of Kwame Nkrumah.
Politics and Society1 month ago

Ghana’s Nkrumahist parties keep splitting – a threat to their strength in the 2024 election
AKA performing in 2015, at the height of his fame.
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

AKA: slain South African rapper was a once-in-a-generation pop culture sensation
Nigerian super artist Tems (Temilade Openiyi) 
Arts, Culture and Sport1 month ago

Nigeria and South Africa triumph at the 2023 Grammys
Supra Mahumapelo, former premier of North West Province, former president Jacob Zuma and current president Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC celebration in 2016.
Politics and Society1 month ago

South Africa’s ruling party has favoured loyalty over competence – now cadre deployment has come back to bite it