Towards the end of the Kwame Nkrumah era in 1966, a number of highlife artists wrote songs critical of him...

By Adebayo Olukoshi, Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, Aishu Balaji & Anita Nayar In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah described the paradox of neocolonialism in Africa,...

Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is well known for his promotion of the use of mother tongue languages, but he...

By Daniel Boffey Two names stand out from the yellowing cemetery register: Sabo and Bitio, 24 and 20 years old, Described...

In June, Mwazulu Diyabanza stood in a Paris museum next to a 19th century funerary post from central Africa, and...

Barely three years ago, little-known Abiy Ahmed burst onto the Ethiopian political scene at the height of another tumultuous period...

By Nicholas Boston* Among the hundreds of thousands of patriots that Poland celebrates for serving in the resistance movement in World...

By Kjell Johannes Havnevik* The former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa, who died on July 24, was the country’s third president....

Nigeria, the most populous country in the African continent, is situated in the West African region. It comprises 180 million...

In the past few years, there has been uncertainty around whether the learning outcomes of South Africa’s schools are improving...