Three frontrunners and one dark horse – will citizens get the change they want and deserve?
Over-reliance on ageing and ailing colonial infrastructure leaves over 40% of the continent’s population without electricity
Two reports reveal what bosses and businesses worldwide are most concerned about. In South Africa, Eskom and cyber risks are big concerns
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Although direct trade and financial links between Africa, Russia and Ukraine may be small, the main effect of the war will be civil strife in Africa driven by food and energy inflation
A growing number of buildings are collapsing in Nigeria amid allegations of negligence, corruption
State security forces act with seeming impunity despite constitutional protections for citizens
With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out
Benin City’s looted bronzes are coming home – but the British Museum hasn’t received the memo, writes Carlos Amato
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Amazon plans to move into South Africa in 2023 and the world’s biggest online marketplace might give local companies a run for their money
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David Otaru is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist canvassing his lived experiences in his upcoming exhibition ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’
There are a number of factors that have heightened religious tensions in Nigeria, the world’s scariest country in which to be a Christian
Despite young people comprising Africa’s majority, their political participation is riddled with inconsistencies. Many young Kenyans won’t vote next month but it is likely to be very different next year in Nigeria
Leaders at some African firms are looking at Francophone markets as a way to expand sales hit by Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
After releasing two huge EPs that thrust him onto the global spotlight and a slew of international features, Mr Eazi is finally ready to unleash his debut album
Boosting human, social and economic development, and good governance, can help to change volatile communities into peaceful ones
Big corporations can absorb fines as a cost of doing business but a more rigorous system needs to be put in place to combat corruption and bribery
On Pentecost Sunday, gunmen opened fire on congregants, killing 40 and injuring 87 people
Deborah Samuel was killed by a mob of fellow students for a message she posted in a WhatsApp group – and the police were unable to stop them
Celebrate the African ‘year of nutrition’ by getting stuck into some of the tastiest food the continent can dish up.
‘Inxeba/The Wound’ is but one of the films of the growing body of literary and visual texts which have focused on queer lived experiences in Africa.
Babatunde Onakoya’s actions are being compared with that of Robert Katende from the movie, ‘Queen of Katwe’, thanks to his nonprofit, Chess in Slums Africa
South Africa now has the same spectrum as neighbouring countries even though they have smaller markets
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Because of their lack of oil refineries, African countries become vulnerable to fluctuations on global markets
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When the infrastructure breaks, the social fabric frays, rape escalates and taps run dry, we curse the foreigner, who is always from another African country
Africa’s largest oil producer has not been able to cash in fully on the price rally because of lacklustre production and its reliance on imported fuel
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Nigerian Kemisola Bolarinwa used ultrasound technology to develop a smart bra that enables the early detection of breast cancer
Miners of rare metals will score but the soaring oil price will result in various cost-of-living increases
Africans, among them South Africans, Nigerians, Ghanains, Congolese and Ivorians, are trying to flee into Poland and other countries neighbouring Ukraine
With the prosperity of the 1970s a thing of the past, the International Monetary Fund-authored austerity of the 1980s gave birth to the hybridised fuji music
Because foreign aid is not effective in helping African countries achieve their development goals, the ‘aid sector’ needs to be reformed
Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.
Over the past two months a controversy has developed over the government’s desire to relabel armed outlaws as ‘bandit terrorists’.