The Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture has failed to explain why it’s prioritising events such as Formula One and the Olympics over vital cultural festivals, jeopardising opportunities for emerging artists and literary voices.
In February 2026, Ghana did something it had not done in living memory.
Reliable and affordable energy, with predictable tariffs, is indispensable.
South Africa’s democratic challenges stem less from flaws in the Constitution than from failures in governance, accountability and institutional strength.
South Africa faces a literacy crisis, with 81% of Grade 4 learners unable to read meaningfully. Emphasising reading for pleasure is essential for fostering motivation and effective literacy development.
The body of Vigário Luís Balanta was found on March 31, 2026, in the Ndam area, about 30 kilometers from Bissau.
The language of fiscal consolidation is meant to sound inevitable. But for Kenya's informal workers, the human cost is anything but abstract.
Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africa’s youth remain locked out of power and decent work.
The question is not whether the world recognises the genocide against the Tutsi. It does.
In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day.
Dr Olivier Walther and Dr Steven Radil share findings from their ongoing research on African borderlands including a forthcoming article in Applied Geography. Africa’s margins have become its main theatre of violence.
Banditry as a profit seeking criminal activity has a long history in Northwest Nigeria. Cattle-rustling, kidnapping for ransom, armed robbery, extortion, looting… these are the economic activities that drive armed groups in Zamfara, Kaduna, and Katsina states.