Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building ...

Pan-African liberation once framed gender equality as foundational, yet modern policy has reduced it to a routine ...

Zimbabwe’s cultural industry is confronting a deeper question than patronage: can art remain culturally independent when financially vulnerable creators receive cars, cash and other rewards from ...

Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, the Nigerian film producer and renowned actor, whose career spanned more than five decades, has passed away at 84. He belonged to that group of elders representing the best of ...

Algorithms are now the unseen architects of African elections. As foreign platforms engineer civic realities through opaque feeds, the true democratic threat isn't just misinformation—it is the ...

South Africa’s famous toyi-toyi was adopted from Zimbabwean troops, who learned it in Algeria – showing the interconnected nature of Africa’s liberation struggles. The toyi-toyi is a high-kneed, ...

In 1986 Julius Okello was forced into Uganda’s Bush War as a child soldier. Tenacity and hope delivered him through a personal wilderness to his PhD. It was Thursday, 9 April 2020, at 05:47, hardly ...

Kwela pennywhistler Johannes “Spokes” Mashiyane (1933-1972) is one of the most influential names in African music. Sitting atop the loose genealogy of South African movements from kwela and mbaqanga ...

Many Africans consider felled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi a hero, but the Brother Leader was no saint. Gaddafi only cared for Africans when he wanted something in return. Don’t take our word for ...

Lifestyle The Purple Flower Trees: Zimbabwe Every year around September time, the streets of Harare with Jacaranda trees come alive when purple flowers blossom. It is one of the most beautiful things ...

Last month I briefly returned to Washington, DC during the annual Spring Meetings. Of course this year’s meetings took place at a critical juncture that will define the future of international ...

Politics and Society Remembering an African hero: 10 quotes from Thomas Sankara On this day Africa lost one of its most illustrious sons, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, who was assassinated in 1987.