The case of pleasure and sex in Northern Nigeria is not a matter of forced conservatism or a robotic followership to a certain doctrine. It is an in-built self-censorship mechanism, and the people are ...

We are living through a profound contradiction in how our state treats its young. In the speeches, they are our “youth dividend,” the hustler generation whose energy will build the nation. In the ...

The silent recolonisation of Africa is happening on a mass scale. To address this issue, the first Africa Conference on Land Grabs is set to take place in South Africa on 27–30 Oct. 2014. Land is the ...

Each year in Kenya, familiar faces are feted at the national remembrance of the country’s heroes and heroines. Dedan Kimathi is arguably the most commemorated of figures. As one of the most prominent ...

Dr Nsekuye Bizimana, a Rwandan sex expert working in Germany, has made a study of the Kunyaza technique. The basic principle is simple and has been passed on by word of mouth in central African ...

Every culture is entitled to its own beliefs. It’s what differentiates and brings some variety to the people that inhabit this continent and planet. The beliefs are also usually there for a reason, ...

Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure, convenience risks becoming a new ...

From its infancy as music for the urban elites to its heyday as the soundtrack for the liberation movement in Ghana, highlife music has remained the bedrock of West African popular culture. This is ...

The Amazons of Dahomey are the only documented female army in modern history and one of the world’s unresolved curiosities. As the West turns their story into fetishised cinema, their nation of origin ...

In March 2026, as The Jeffery Epstein files threatened to expose elite predators, the US-Israel unleashed catastrophic war on Iran—assassinating Khamenei, pounding Tehran, invading Lebanon, choking ...

When Europeans arrived in Africa, like everyone who comes from elsewhere into new terrain they had something to say about the way we lived. To them coming from icy climates which required them to wear ...

Takura Zhangazha embraces the socialist lineage of African liberation to critique modern Zimbabwe. Zhangazha contextualizes the liberation-era term “Zvigananda”—reignited by VP Chiwenga—to describe ...