Starting two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation launched TrustLaw, “a global hub for free legal assistance and news and information on good governance and women’s rights.” One of the major parts of TrustLaw is TrustLaw Women. Monday’s TrustLaw Women ran, as its major piece, a curious squib under the headline, “Five things you didn’t […]
An exploration of China's presence in Zambia, including suspicion, tensions and possibilities for collaboration.
Africa is really attractive in different ways to many former Italian politicians, it seems.
For Namibians fighting Germany over reparations, It’s about more than about a bit of land or perhaps some goats. It’s about time that debt was paid -- with interest.
South Africans have chosen ignorance. We have decided to not know what’s on the other side of the road. To be safe in our enclaves, and only venture out to edify our prejudices or prop up credentials.
Francois Hollande want French-African relations to be transparent. Is this a new African policy or the old FrançAfrique?
Political springs, as in social movements that topple and/or transform political regimes, occur when the youth of a nation get on the move. And that may be what happened in Nairobi this past Monday. A harbinger of spring.
For Canada's Conservative Party government Africa has moved from disaster and aid to opportunity. An actual Canadian government said the above.
The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda's military.
Will the breakthrough of a Swazi jockey in British horse racing change the global stakes for Africa and its diaspora's riders?
In supposedly post-apartheid South Africa - where political and economic power are at odds - what happens in gay spaces?
The thumb piano has made somewhat of a resurgence in contemporary pop music partly because of the international stardom of groups like Konono N˚1.
The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.
Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.
Solange Knowles is the second major UK or American artist to shoot a music video in Cape Town in so many months.
By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.
The oppression/resistance model of politics explains some things, but it does not explain everything, and less and less these days on the continent.
In South Africa, there was more activity in solidarity with Pussy Riot than with the Marikana miners killed by police in August 2012.
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
In Dutch politics, Africa mostly works as a tactic to embarrass and ridicule your opponent.