Gifted young Kenyan chess champion kept in check by the bureaucracy
MUKURU KWA NJENGA, Kenya — With a nonchalance only teenagers have, the 13-year-old shook out the contents of a tote bag onto the table in [read more…]
MUKURU KWA NJENGA, Kenya — With a nonchalance only teenagers have, the 13-year-old shook out the contents of a tote bag onto the table in [read more…]
For most experts concerned about the survival of elephants, the idea that a global ivory market could be part of the solution was discarded as [read more…]
Botswana’s High Court ruled for LGBTQI rights in the southern African country on Tuesday — another historic decision in favor of equality, diversity and dignity. [read more…]
It was the biggest battle fought on African soil since the Second World War: a titanic clash in a civil war that left swathes of Angola [read more…]
Last week, the 12th US-Africa Business Summit, a high-level event attended by 11 African heads of state and government and some 1,000 business leaders, was [read more…]
In August 2014, Onyera Lucy and other residents of Rwamutonga village in the Hoima district of Uganda woke up to gunshots and teargas. Their homes [read more…]
Do geographically delineated borders, imposed on the continent during the 19th-century colonial Scramble for Africa have any real meaning when movement across them has been [read more…]
A royal-backed UK charity, investigates LIONEL FAULL, reveals details that it has been involved in bolstering the regime that runs one of Africa’s most authoritarian [read more…]
After he graduated from university, Vozbeth Kofi Azumah was reluctant to tell anyone – even his mother – what he planned to do for a [read more…]
Youth unemployment and migration are global phenomena, particularly given the level of international economic stagnation. Africa is no exception: Growing unemployment does not encourage the [read more…]
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