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Studying local Africans’ contributions to the abolition of slavery provides a fuller understanding of its history.
Playing out in an animal kingdom, Glory is a devastating political commentary on Zimbabwe today.
Hijab controversy in Nigeria’s public schools has further exposed how religion has polarised Africa’s most populous nation.
A true African poet, Don Mattera was at the centre of public life, an advocate for change and an enemy of elitism.
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.
Having the Quran in Igbo language will help in propagating Islam in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
The Wafcon final on Saturday is proof of the development of the women’s game on the continent - and of mining star players abroad.
The Caf African Player of the Year is named on 21 July – but it’s only one of eight trophies being handed out.
Nigerian popular music - Afrobeats - is storming the world’s stages. But it’s just the latest stage in a vibrant century of recorded music in the country.
Known as ting or amazimba, indigenous sorghum is resilient and rich in cultural and health benefits – yet crops are declining.
While many people rely on written signage to find their way around, oral language plays a significant role in giving directions in rural areas.
This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Group Theory: Black Music is the name of the new album from the composer, drummer and scholar. On it jazz meets political theory.
Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.
The thorny issue of testosterone testing has made news, not just the growing skills on the field.
Despite being almost erased from history, Sithole’s ideas are still relevant today.
All that remains of the political icon is a tooth, but it represents much more than just a human trophy.
Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
On in South Africa at the Encounters film festival, the documentary is an intimate portrait of the great artist.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.