African History

Long before the ANC took power in South Africa, activist-poet and lawyer Munzhedzi 'Zorro' Ramovha foresaw the dangers of liberation leaders succumbing to corruption, arrogance,…

Berita’s Workers’ Day performance becomes a powerful meditation on migration, memory and xenophobia in a nation built through labour, movement and forgotten solidarities

Beautifully made and emotionally rich, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight exposes the uneasy truth of who gets to tell Zimbabwe’s story

Dancing the Death Drill is more than theatre — it is a resurrection, a requiem and a haunting reminder of forgotten African history

Morley Nkosi recalls exile in Cairo, where cramped rooms, African solidarity and global politics shaped the uncertain journey to freedom

Ethiopia puts paid to Western perceptions that African people lack history and are incapable of poetry, philosophy and science

My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

Africans need to return to communalism and share knowledge to thrive together in the 21st century

Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself

History, politics, drugs, terrorists, cartoons, sport celebrities and memoirs … expand your knowledge over the Christmas period

A Senegalese researcher wants to find missing clues of slavery to piece together the history and future of his country

The continent was a place where people could always move freely, and this is what we must strive for, writes Achille Mbembe.

Cricket’s African history is painstakingly researched, but the prose could use more power and vivacity.

The truth of our past is being airbrushed out of our minds for the sake of nation-building.

African history must be taught with pride and passion.