
The rise and fall of Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South African public life is rife with revisionism, often opportunistic. Take the case of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
South African public life is rife with revisionism, often opportunistic. Take the case of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
In Nigeria, there is a critical mass of scientific, medical and public health expertise—from managing medical crises, natural disasters and the health-related fallouts of economic breakdown.
The stuff we couldn't cover the second week of December, so we compiled them here in byte sizes.
On the arrest and detention of Cameroonian writer and scholar, Patrice Nganang.
The "two state solution" for Israel and Palestine will be the culmination of the same political vision that motivated apartheid South Africa.
South Africa’s Constitution begins with a bold statement: “We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France's presence, as somehow radical.
Angola's new president may still chart his own political course against party directives and the interests of the Dos Santos family.
The United States' support for “strong man rule” in Africa, if President Yoweri Museveni’s recipe for longevity in Uganda.
Mugabe was a neoliberal stooge up until the 2000s and far from being a Pan-Africanist hero sent his army to intervene in the most rapacious war in Africa's history in the Congo.
Plus the great novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika has put together a list of the best books of the Mugabe years.
After 38 years of Angola's dictatorship of the elders, President João Lourenço has raised hopes that power might be more responsive to Angolans' everyday needs.
AIDS interventions are often funded from afar and fail to realize the people they're trying to assist have opinions on AIDS interventions.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s newly inaugurated President, suggests that Zimbabwe is “witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding democracy”.
Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron's "Africa Speech" in Ouagadougou?
The moral of Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe: While men continue to share the spoils of their misrule, it seems there must always be a harlot who can be brought to heel.
Racism and discrimination are central to the social and cultural hierarchy in the Maghreb. Libya is no exception.
From the perspective of the past, there is little evidence to invest much hope in the “successful transition” trope still reverberating in the international media about Zimbabwe.
What has Angola's President João Lourenço, dubbed the “implacable exonerator,” been up to?
Biya did not conceive the system by which he rules Cameroon, but deserves as much credit for the modifications that have enabled his reign.