International car companies are looking at Africa as the last frontier for automotive growth, beginning a scramble for market share.
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Boko Haram Survivors Are Starving To Death As Aid Falls Short
“I have never heard such fear and desperation. This is a new terrible.”
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Ranking African Universities: Hypocrisy, Impunity and Complicity
Nearly ten years ago I confronted an expert about what she claimed was an “African phenomenon” in higher education. She was reluctant to provide me with the raw data upon which this “phenomenon” was premised, so I vigorously contested her claim.
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Celebrating 8 of the Most Influential Black South African Women Writers
We’re just a few days away from Women’s Month in South Africa––a time to reflect on the strong, courageous and brilliant women of South Africa’s past and present.
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Ugandan Photographer Sarah Waiswa Wins Prestigious Recontres d’Arles 2016 Discovery Award
Ugandan-born, Nairobi-based photographer Sarah Waiswa recently won the Recontres d’Arles 2016 Discovery Award for her photography project: “ Stranger in Familiar Land.”
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Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?
Colonial rule ended in Sudan in 1956. As the British and Egyptian flags were lowered, a struggle for power between rival factions was already under way. Fifty-five years later Sudan was partitioned and a new nation came into existence: South Sudan, whose population had spent decades waging a succession of wars against the regime in Khartoum, was now an independent country, the world’s most recent, recognized by the UN, the African Union (AU), and Sudan itself.
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Meet Osborne Macharia’s Club of Elite Little People Fighters
Kenyan architect by trade-turned-digital conceptual photographer Osborne Macharia has quite the imagination.
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Welcome to Africatown: The Alabama Town Founded by the Last African Slaves
Cudjoe Lewis and others fought to return to Africa, but eventually had to settle for recreating Africa here.
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South Africa’s Bid to End AIDS
South Africa has pledged to ramp up efforts to end its massive HIV/AIDS epidemic, the world’s largest. Come September, it will offer every infected person ARVs, which both stave off disease and make people less infectious.
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Because of Madiba: 10 South African Personalities on the Legacy of Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s freedom came at a high cost. We lost loved ones and heroes who fought so that we could be free. And while we continue to face issues of racism and exclusion, we honour Steve Biko, Tsietsi Mashinini, Oliver Tambo, Solomon Mahlangu and the countless others that took part in the struggle and paved the way.
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