After years of being frozen out by Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration, President Joyce Banda has restored the IMF to the top table of Malawian policy-making and pushed through a sweeping reforms at their behest.
Nigeria's ruling class, when faced with criticism, always go for censorship, to silence their critics.
We were wrong. Some Africans do like Margaret Thatcher. Here's a gallery of 10 of them.
With this, I am bringing back Weekend Special for all those things we don't have the time to blog about or say more than the required 140 characters on Twitter.
Thatcher’s energetic opposition to sanctions and support for right wing forces prolonged the state of violence across the breadth of Southern Africa.
Al Jazeera is planning a French language version of its news network. That means, government funded France 24 will be in direct competition with it for viewership in Africa and amongst the continent's French speaking diaspora.
The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa's rainbow shibboleths.
Why when African leaders meet Barack Obama, they are received in groups (unlike all other heads of state) and rarely get to speak?
What has Steve Bantu Biko got to do with partying and spring in the Netherlands?
The trouble with the official Dutch commemoration of the abolition of slavery. It leaves out the descendants of victims altogether.
Also, dispelling the myth that all Arab men systematically oppress and victimize Arab women.
On Sunday, March 17, a day after the Constitutional Referendum, Zimbabwe arrested Beatrice Mtetwa, leading human
To my ear Achebe’s voice is always measured even at its most defiant.
France's intervention never offered a real solution to any of Mali's problems, but created a set of problems to the ones this country would otherwise have faced.
Why Goodluck Jonathan's presidential pardons are a bad idea.
An interview with the managing editor of "Daily News Egypt," two-years after the Egyptian uprising.
The problem with so many Twitter crowd members is they live in their comfort zone and are not about to lift a finger to get out of there.
Angola is a country that has been ruled by the same party, the MPLA, since independence
A French Communist MP announced he would press the French National Assembly to create an inquiry commission to investigate the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara.
Elections provide opportunities for national self-examination and renewal, maybe not in Kenya.