Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
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Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
Il est temps de répartir les droits de télévision entre plusieurs diffuseurs et d'éviter un monopole.
Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
Gender plays a major role in how mourning is done by the Akan ethnic group of Ghana
Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
International career mobility can give people valuable knowledge and expertise to be used in their home country.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
Writers have challenged oppression, exposed social injustices and advocated for political change.
Danfo drivers are often intolerant, bringing down the image of Lagos as a destination.
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Queer theory tells us that people’s identities are complex. If all research subjects are approached this way, we can understand their responses more fully.
More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
The Camões Prize is the most important award for Portuguese literature, and Paulina Chiziane is the first African woman to receive it.
The restitution of looted objects from former colonies in Africa is an essential component of post-colonial reparation.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
Studies show unisex toilets don’t lead to violence – and they create a safer space for gender diverse people.
Africans should get more credit for the abolition of the slave trade.
Maman Creppy was one of Togo’s original Nana Benzes who had created a powerful wax cloth empire.
The history of Christian nonconformism should lead church leaders to look with sympathy on gay Ugandans’ situation today.
You can count on Mama Ngina Kenyattta to defend the family name, in good times and bad.
Novelist Petina Gappah’s call for translators on Facebook has resulted in the publication of Chimurenga Chemhuka.