The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the best university in Africa according to the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2023.
African rising
Arts, Culture and Sport Feni Chulumanco takes his home to the galleries
The young artist’s paintings tell the story of his upbringing and his determination to create excellent, original pieces. Now the long hours and hard work are paying off.
Politics and Society Africa isn’t an opinion or an opiate: An Ode to the ever defiant motherland
Writing from the time honoured capital of Africa, Addis Ababa, Alieu Bah brings home the need for a balanced view of the continent. Not one locked in exotic discourse or Job like lamentation but one that is at once righteous and striving.
Arts, Culture and Sport The inspiring architect from Burkina Faso who lifted world’s biggest prize
Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded architecture’s highest international honour, the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Africans rising PhD graduand becomes SA’s first black observational ocean biogeochemist
Mhlangabezi Mdutyana is a University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD graduate-in-waiting. He’s the son of a domestic worker and a security guard and he grew up on the dusty roads of Polar Park in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.
Arts, Culture and Sport Hivos announces fourth gathering of African Crossroads
On October 14 and 15, Hivos’ African Crossroads will organize its fourth edition. The theme of this year’s gathering is ECOEXISTENCE. At the end of Crossroads 2021, participants will emerge with an actionable (collective) manifesto that aims to shape the trajectory of climate justice on the African continent for the years to come.
Arts, Culture and Sport Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction traces small lives with wit and tenderness
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s stories suggest that it is important to see others in relation to ourselves, to perceive their right of abode even if they cannot claim national belonging.
Politics and Society Rethinking how we look at Africa’s relationship with China
African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China.
Lifestyle Obituary: TB Joshua, Nigeria’s controversial Pentecostal titan
Ongoing support for TB Joshua and his ministry can be explained by understanding the theological tradition in which he operated.