Writers, publishers and bookshops are trying to keep afloat during the extended lockdown with digital and virtual offerings
A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.
Angola’s president has asked the country to give him five more years in power to further his drive to rebuild the country after its 27-year civil war.
With the president’s face on jumbo screens, T-shirts and helium blimps, thousands of Angolans rallied to show their support ahead of the polls.
Isaac and Joan Ngwenya have an exceptional story from the apartheid era, whereby every citizen was classified by race.
In a field 30km south of Angola’s chaotic capital, a city seems to rise from nothing, a showpiece in government’s drive to build a million homes.
A collection of Nelson Mandela’s papers reveals his years of heartache at missing his family while in prison and his wariness at becoming idolised.
South Africa’s week-long public-service strike has strained President Jacob Zuma’s ties with leftist allies who helped propel him to power.
Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, mourned at the funeral of their great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, on Thursday.
A grief-stricken Nelson Mandela pulled out of the Soccer World Cup opening Friday after the death of his great-granddaughter.
In the final run-up to the World Cup, South Africans have snapped up tickets in a surge that will give the tournament a more African flavour.
A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and on to Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.
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/ 3 February 2009
African leaders on Tuesday discussed ways to ride out the global economic downturn.
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/ 15 November 2008
Hundreds of people paid their last respects on Saturday to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
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/ 7 November 2008
Southern African leaders will pile pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai at a summit on Sunday.