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
Because of their lack of oil refineries, African countries become vulnerable to fluctuations on global markets
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
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’.
An extended version of this anthology promises more writings from Nigeria’s nooks and crannies
The ban shocked many in Nigeria, where Twitter has had a major role in political discourse, with the hashtags #BringBackOurGirls after Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014.
Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
Conflict hotspots, most in the Sahel region, will continue to dominate the news this year, while a number of countries will hold key elections.
The climate crisis will hit Africa hard. The Covid-19 crisis has shown that African states can’t rely on the Global North to do the right thing. Nevertheless, there are signs that all is not lost
The highlights of 2021 in Africa
Dancing to their own beat: the Afrobeats sound is conquering the world, with Tems and WizKid at the vanguard
With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian leaders since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999.
Beauty pageants are political. Calling these women role models, talking about their natural hair, their ambition, their voice is all political. Representing a country on a global stage is also political
A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations
For more than five years the deputy president has remained steadfast in his right to travel abroad to receive medical treatment
Large companies such as International Breweries and Nigerian Breweries are vying for the population’s drinking money
man in Nigeria, was attacked and eaten by his hungry dog, boerboels terrify people in Johannesburg, and in Canada some folk take their canine companions to daycare.
In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted