An experienced politician with decades of activism under his belt, Zimbabwe's 45-year-old opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is still known to...
Read moreDetailsThe 62-year-old general, Abdourahamane Tchiani is from Niger’s western region of Tillaberi, close to the border with Mali. He studied...
Read moreDetailsKenya has been in a state of mourning since Friday (April 22, 2022) when president Uhuru Kenyatta announced the death...
Read moreDetailsTanzania has been marking 100 years since the birth of its founding father, the late Julius Nyerere. Events have been...
Read moreDetailsBurkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere was awarded with the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. The announcement was made on...
Read moreDetailsThe fourth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Merkorios, has passed away after several weeks of hospital treatment...
Read moreDetailsBurkina Faso's new strongman, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has had first-hand experience of the brutal militant insurgency that he cites...
Read moreDetailsBy Peter Kimani* Kenya’s most celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong'o marked his 84 birthday on January 5. Having published his...
Read moreDetailsHissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was...
Read moreDetailsIbrahim Boubacar Keita, a controversial figure in Malian history, was born January 29, 1945, in the southern Malian city of...
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